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n. The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house.

adj. Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace.

adj. Pertaining to an activity normal to the household, usually associated with the living-room, whether or not it has a real fireplace.

"Chapter 16, page 65: “He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”"

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