chimney breast

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   walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base

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Questions about chimney breast

What does chimney breast mean?

chimney breast means "walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base".

Is chimney breast a common word?

chimney breast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.