polescreen

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pole +‎ screen.

Noun

polescreen (plural polescreens)

  1. (now historical) A screen mounted on a pole. [from 18th c.]
    • 1949, The Antiquarian, page 8:
      The most prized of the furnishings perhaps is the polescreen in the front parlor, whose needlepoint is dated the second half of the seventeenth century .
    • 1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 130:
      The engravings, by J.-M. Delattre, were framed to make an attractive pair of Neoclassical shield-shaped pole-screens (sold by Sotheby's 18 May 1990, lot 202) around 1785.
    • 2013, Tim Jeal, A Marriage of Convenience:
      His eyes rested absently on an embroidered polescreen, as if his mind had passed on to quite different matters.
  2. A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles.
    • 1995, Joan Barzilay Freund, Masterpieces of Americana, page 33:
      The eighteenth-century designer Thomas Sheraton once qualified the purpose of a polescreen or firescreen as " a piece of furniture to shelter the face or legs from the fire . "
    • 1997, Joanna Banham, Encyclopedia of Interior Design:
      The polescreen, with a sliding screen on a turned upright pole, four to five feet tall, supported on a tripod base, was also known as a screenstick in the late 17th century.
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