Polescreen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Polescreen is a noun meaning (now historical) A screen mounted on a pole.
Meaning
(now historical) A screen mounted on a pole.
More Meanings
- A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles.
Example Sentences
His eyes rested absently on an embroidered polescreen, as if his mind had passed on to quite different matters.
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 .
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.
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.
Word Forms
- polescreens
- pole-screen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tent pole, tentpole, shear pole, pole, fencepole.
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