potbelly stove

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His swanky West Hollywood atelier had colorful wallpaper and African masks on the walls, a huge potbelly stove and a full bar, where customers could indulge throughout a fitting.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

While the Kumasaka family was incarcerated in Minidoka, a fire caused by an overheated potbelly stove burned down the Green Lake Community Center and vandals extensively damaged the farm’s greenhouses.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Heat came from a potbelly stove, and there was no indoor plumbing or electricity, according to church history.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2021

Leading with his smooth manners and a paunch that will swell into a potbelly stove, he goes through the proper courtship motions.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018

Hundreds of crates of misprinted dictionaries are stacked in the halls, and the girls burn them page by page in the potbelly stove.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr