What is "firesides"

Usage examples of "firesides".

The plain, simple words of everyday life, to which the common people have been used around their own firesides from childhood, are the words we must use in our dealings with them.

As the men tired and went back to quaff watered wine at the firesides, their places and equipment were readily taken by onlookers.

Would you have him leave these men, whom he has called from their peaceful firesides, without a leader?