hand-screen

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Noun[edit]

hand-screen (plural hand-screens)

  1. Alternative form of hand screen
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
      I must have a large bouquet of wax flowers, and a new set of baskets for glass dishes—they look very pretty and hold little—then, I have not a hand-screen in the house; all went to Brighton, more pity;...
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