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Definition of Open fireplace

1. Noun. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built. "The hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Fireplace

Literary usage of Open fireplace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on Ventilation by Morrill Wyman (1846)
"Best Mode of warming and ventilating a House without Regard to Expense is an Air-beating Apparatus and an open Fireplace. ..."

2. Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction by Henry Barnard, Rhode Island Institute of Instruction (1846)
"This is quite a different thing from the ordinary open fireplace. The double fireplace is a modification of Franklin's plan. It is made from any common ..."

3. American Educational Monthly (1865)
"FOR the warming of rooms, artificial heat may be derived from radiation, a? in the open fireplace ; from convection, as in hot-air furnaces; ..."

4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The ordinary open fireplace was one of the earliest means adopted to secare ... The open fireplace is the most wasteful of all arrangements for warming, ..."

5. The American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science: Or by Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
"The evils resulting from the substitution of stoves instead of the open fireplace, have led scientific and benevolent men to contrive various modes of ..."

6. School Architecture, Or, Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses by Henry Barnard (1849)
"It is far superior in point of economy to the open fireplace, ... is no advantage in the open fireplace which cannot be secured in the large open stove. ..."

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