English

mantelboard

From mantel + board.

A compound of mantel + board

English mantle ‘cloak, robe’

English mantel

Proto-Germanic *burdą ‘board’

Proto-West Germanic *bord ‘board’

Old English bord ‘board’

Middle English boord

English board

Today it means

noun A mantel.

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