mantel
壁炉,钵盂,钵体,衣钵
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- : a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- : Also called mantelshelf. a shelf above a fireplace opening.
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Her mantel is adorned with a taper candle in a clay wine bottle alongside pillars and food-shaped candles on each side.
If you opt for a caricature, make room on the fireplace mantel for a cartoonish rendering of your masked face.
Matthew would fly to our mantel, pick up in his talons a small soapstone bear, fly over Sam and drop it on her head.
However, before you make room on the mantel for a framed image of your Vietnamese pangolin or Tasmanian devil, some research is required.
Some rest flush against a mantel, while others are made by graduating the ribbon, loop by loop, to make very large bows.
In her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, Mantel writes of her own childhood encounters with the paranormal.
Mantel did live in Saudi Arabia with her husband for nearly a decade, and this piece was originally published as memoir.
Author Hilary Mantel is under fire for writing a story about killing Margaret Thatcher.
His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).
Nick Lord, 25, wins commission to paint Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel for a portrait which will hang in the British Library.
When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.