Polescreen
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A screen mounted on a pole. historical
"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 ."
- 2 A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles.
"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 . ""
Example
More examples"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 ."
Etymology
From pole + screen.
More for "polescreen"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.