CHIMNEY BREAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chimney breast mean? 

• CHIMNEY BREAST (noun)
  The noun CHIMNEY BREAST has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CHIMNEY BREAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIMNEY BREAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chimney breast" is a kind of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)