Definitions
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- noun The area around the
fireplace in theliving-room of a family house. - adjective Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace.
- adjective Pertaining to an activity normal to the
household , usually associated with theliving-room , whether or not it has a real fireplace.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”
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Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed.
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Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”
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She grabbed a medium-sized log from the hearthside basket and gently placed it diagonally across the top; she sat back on the couch, watching the flames, transfixed.
Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger 2010
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Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearthside from which we set out.
July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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There, seated in splendid comfort, sat Father Morrison, hands clasped around his belly, feet stretched out, dozing, comfortable as a cat on a hearthside rug.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Closing the first and shortest stanza, they draw us into the hearthside of the poem.
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Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearthside from which we set out.
henry david thoreau | happy birthday, henry! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Jean was lying on the hearthside rug playing with a doll.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Is it all right to suggest the major reason Leverman has joined the hearthside Hannibals sending their red elephants east?
What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman 2009
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