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Definition of Fireplaces
1. fireplace [n] - See also: fireplace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireplaces
Literary usage of Fireplaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by George Edward Ellis (1871)
"Essay on the Construction of Kitchen Fireplaces and Utensils. ... Essay. on Open
Chimney Fireplaces. — The Count's Name attached to other than his own ..."
2. The Complete Works of Count Rumford by Benjamin Rumford, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"CHAPTER I. Fireplaces for burning Coals, or Wood, in an open Chimney, are capable
of great Improvement. — Smoking Chimneys may in all cases be completely ..."
3. Beautiful Houses: A Study in House-building. Foreign Examples in Domestic by " "Cereal (1895)
"There was the building of circular form, with niches forming fireplaces around
... It became a part of the general structure, and the fireplaces were nearer ..."
4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"The use of these fireplaces in very many houses, both of this and the neighboring
colonies, has been and is a great saving of wood to the inhabitants. § 7. ..."
5. National Building Code by American Insurance Association, National Board of Fire Underwriters (1909)
"All fireplaces and chimney breasts where mantels are TO support placed, whether
intended ... All fireplaces in which heaters are placed shall have Mantels, ..."
6. The Open Fireplace in All Ages by John Pickering Putnam (1880)
"modern fireplaces, to heat the air of the apartment, they at least sufficed to
warm amply the persons grouped around them or seated on the hospitable ..."
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