chimney corner
Noun
Meaning
a corner by a fireplace
Source: WordNetAlternative names
chimney-corner
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Examples
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.