The word 'mantelpiece' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a structure or shelf above a fireplace, usually used for displaying items or decorations. Example: "She carefully placed the antique clock on the mantelpiece, adding a touch of elegance to the living room."
I was later found asleep on the mantelpiece'.
With a stack of Golden Globes already on the mantelpiece, and his trophy cabinet filling fast, Sam Mendes made yet more Hollywood history yesterday when American Beauty was nominated for eight Oscars - the most by a first time foreign director and more than any other film this year.
Here's Reid observing a weightlifter in the 1979 poem "Baldanders": "Glazed, like a mantelpiece frog, / he strains to become // the World Champion (somebody, answer it!) / Human Telephone".
Few archetypes are dearer to the American imagination than that of the free-born farmer reaching up to pull down his Springfield rifle from above the mantelpiece and defend his hearth against Hessian, Indian or British invaders of his liberty.
As a student at Oxford, a bust of Lenin took pride of place on his mantelpiece, according to a biography by William Shawcross.
And although Mr Khazendar's poetry can be serious or sinister one, "Belongings", opening "Who entered my room when I was out/and moved the vase on the mantelpiece just a tad?"—in Mr Paulin's translations, they never seem too laboured.This may surprise some readers who are aware of Mr Paulin's work as a cultural commentator in Britain.
Zola had inscribed on his mantelpiece the phrase "nulla dies sine linea" (no day without a sentence).
(He kept a picture of the cigar-toting comedian on his mantelpiece next to pictures of Yeats and Valéry).
In her Paris campaign headquarters, an elegant left-bank apartment, she drapes necklaces along the mantelpiece, and mixes white soft furnishings with fuchsia-pink light.Backed by her popularity in the polls, Ms Royal defied the crushing scepticism of her own party heavyweights to secure the Socialist Party presidential nomination late last year.
In Time Transfixed (1939), for example, a steaming locomotive is suspended from the centre of a mantelpiece in a middle-class sitting room, looking as if it had just emerged from a tunnel.
How many times it fell off Bligh's mantelpiece back in Kent to disgorge its contents into the grate below, only to be replaced by something less than the remnants of a bail, is unknown.
