Definition of "hearthside" [hearthside]

• The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house. (noun)
• Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace. (adjective)
• Pertaining to an activity normal to the household, usually associated with the living-room, whether or not it has a real fireplace. (adjective)

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• "Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”"
• "Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed."
• "Closing the first and shortest stanza, they draw us into the hearthside of the poem."