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fireside
(faɪəˈsaɪd, attrib. ˈfaɪəsaɪd)
[f. fire n. + side.]
1. The side of a fire-place; originally, the place occupied by the two seats right and left of the fire under the chimney; hence, the space about the fire: the hearth.
1563O. Foxe in Child Marr. 58 This contract was made toward eveninge nere the fireside. a1639T. Carew Poems, Spring 20 Love no more is made By the fire side. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. i. 12 The news..coming to the Pope, as he was saying his Beads by the Fire-side. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) III. 74 The warm house, and the comfortable fireside, would lose half of their interest. 1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts (1875) 3 My brothers had made my place ready for me by their fireside.
2. transf.
a. As a symbol of home and home-life.
1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 149 They would fight manfully for their shops and firesides. 1894Daily News 6 June 6/4 The English are regarded as the nation most appreciatory of the home, the fireside.
†b. collect. Those who sit round one's fire or hearth; one's household. Obs.
1720Lett. from Lond. Jrnl. 13 He has a numerous Fireside of squabbling Brats. 1722Pope Lett. (1735) I. 276 Enjoy your own Fire-side..that is, all those of your Family who make it pleasing to sit and spend whole Wintry Months together. 1785F. Burney Lett. 3 Jan., A very happy new year to you and your fireside. 1839F. Reynolds Let. 13 May in A. Bunn Stage (1840) III. vi. 218 For so many years he formed a part of my fireside.
3. attrib. (quasi-adj.) Also applied spec. (orig. in the U.S.) to informal broadcast talks to the nation.
1740Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 137, I own such a downright fire-side epistle from her disappointed me. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. III. 621 The fire-side chair, still set, but vacant still. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge i, The fire-side group. 1871Lowell My Study W., A. Lincoln, The simple confidence, the fireside plainness, with which Mr. Lincoln always addresses himself to the reason of the American people. 1885H. James Little Tour in France (1900) vii. 70 The sixty years that preceded the [French] Revolution were the golden age of fireside talk. 1926R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. x. 196 Her fireside chats about the characters and intimate histories of her friends and relations were famed in London. 1935Amer. Mercury July 325/2 Now and again..one may find a half-hearted Hoosier who turns from the lamp to listen to a ‘Fireside Chat’. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 301 In a ‘fireside’ radio talk he [sc. the President] announced that the Administration would initiate a 4 million dollars ‘spending and lending’ programme. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 344 The fireside-chat I'm-a-plain-fellow manner is still irritating. 1966Observer 7 Aug. 28/4 Fireside chats from Number 10 Downing Street.
Hence (nonce-wds.) fireˈsider, one who sits by the fireside. fireˈsideship, the personality of one who sits by the fireside.
1817Hazlitt Round Table in Q. Rev. XVII. 157 Fire-sider [cited by the reviewer as coined by Hazlitt.] a1859L. Hunt Fancy Concert, What concert 'twould please his Firesideship to have. |
