If A Mantle Piece Is Cornish

What exactly is the mantle?

Cornish, do you mean wafer thin

Mantel.

Just spotted that Mr K.

And it's on t'other thread.

And I wrote this earlier.

Posted by: dustaf (38912) Report abuse


I didn't like to mention the spelling in the title.

Especially as she (VG) can't edit it.


Replied: 1st Oct 2013 at 14:41



Dear bays and grils at the WEP.....

Report abuse indeed!

By 'eck, how those chickens come home to roost....

[Middle English mantel, as in mantiltre, beam over fireplace opening (perhaps from its use for drying wet clothing); see manteltree.]

Here

"Aye, and innit a bugger when it's on a thread title and you're stuck with it?"

Thow shalt not irk

Enough already, and absorb my knowledge.

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Also called mantel shelf chimneypiece a shelf above a fireplace often forming part of the mantel

Here

So, can you have a mantel, bowt a mantelpiece?

Absorb your knowledge that you gleaned (not gleamed) from Google you mean.

But there again

An old proveb or summut."Dont look at the mantel piece when you're poking the fire".

So I guess its mantel piece

Fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a grate to catch the smoke. The term has evolved to include the decorative framework around the fireplace, and can include elaborate designs extending to the ceiling. Mantelpiece is now the general term for the jambs, mantel shelf, and external accessories of a fireplace wikipedia

Mantle is a cloak or covering I think.

...actually, if Kryten hadn't spoken at 17.14 I probably wouldn't have noticed.

A bit like a nose then

VG, I mentioned nuns' mantle's elsewhere.

Evenin' Mache

Cornish mantle??

Does it have carrots in it? Should it have carrots in it?

when I was little the mantelpiece was always referred to as t'cornish but it's not a word I hear now

Just fathomed the carrot thing out.

Pasties.

(Be careful what you google, them American pasties aren't like ours)

Cornish is derived from the French, "Corniche", meaning a ledge.

Art, Dustaf has a certificate now.

True

A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element

From my link @ 1st Oct 2013 at 17:11

Le Grande Corniche (French)is a road (ledge)on the cliff side, overlooking monaco

TUT!