polescreen

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Etymology[edit]

From pole +‎ screen.

Noun[edit]

polescreen (plural polescreens)

  1. (now historical) A screen mounted on a pole. [from 18th c.]
    • 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.
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