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noun Chiefly British Dialect.
- a fire burning in a hearth.
- a fireplace; hearth.
noun
- archaic, or dialect a fire in a room or a fireplace
“fireplace,” c.1500, from Scottish, probably from Gaelic aingeal “fire,” of uncertain origin. The vogue for Scottish poetry in late 18c. introduced ingleside, ingle-nook to literary English.