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open fireplace

n. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" [syn: fireplace, hearth]

Usage examples of "open fireplace".

He noticed then, for the first time, that three or four beer bottles had been tucked into the open fireplace, hidden earlier because of the shadow.

Thornton one a little in front of Madison and nearer his wife and Helena, who were close by the big, open fireplace.

Cattermole, pulled her into the still-open fireplace, and disappeared.

The big open fireplace was filled with beer cans, decayed garbage and other litter tossed into it by hikers who had camped here overnight in years past.

As the great crowd who dined at his table began to disperse, he led me into a small sitting room, dimly lighted, a pleasant room with an open fireplace.

Passing beneath the archway, he saw the open fireplace, set with bright Italian tiles, the upright piano, the old-fashioned gramophone.

A door in the inner wall close to this window led to a room behind, and a big open fireplace faced the windows on the court.

He shook hands reluctantly with Mary and led us into an old-fashioned sitting-room with heavy Edwardian furniture, velvet drapes from ceiling to floor and a fire burning in a huge open fireplace.

Entering in this way, you will see immediately opposite to you the large open fireplace occupied by a pile of unlit logs—.

But there was an open fireplace in the room, a real one, complete with poker, shovel, and tongs.