fire-place

fire-place (plural fire-places)

1. Archaic form of fireplace.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], →OCLC, page 120:

     The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fire-place, that she might be farther from the door.

   • 1815 Robertson Buchanan, A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam Appendix, p. 307.

     It has frequently been a subject of inquiry, whether the ancients were acquainted with chimneys, or open fire-places.

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, “The Author Removed from His First Home”, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 44:

     The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads up stairs, and its clay floor down stairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless sides, and that most curious piece of workmanship of all the rest, the ladder stairway, and the hole curiously dug in front of the fire-place, beneath which grandmammy placed the sweet potatoes to keep them from the frost, was my home—the only home I ever had; and I loved it, and all connected with it.