The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chimney-breast
Chimney-breast \Chim"ney-breast`\, n. (Arch.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Wiktionary
chimney-breast
n. (context architecture English) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Usage examples of "chimney-breast".
The black, iron range that had once served as oven, grill, hotplate - even though there was an elderly, enamel-chipped electric cooker standing at the end of kitchen units almost opposite - and fireplace was set into the broad soot-stained chimney-breast, metal saucepans and other cooking utensils cluttering its shadowed top.