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hand-screen

hand-screen is the alternative form of hand screen.

Meaning of hand screen

Noun

hand screen (plural hand screens)

  1. (historical) A small screen held in the hand, used as a fan, or to protect one's face from light or heat.
    • She took me to her Boudoir, seated me on the soffa, fetched me a hand screen, and entered into a most spirited conversation, with all her old facility, and pleasantry, and singularity.1816, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 505

Forms of hand-screen

pluralhand-screens

Questions about hand-screen

What is hand-screen the alternative form of?
Hand-screen is the alternative form of hand screen.

Words near hand-screen in the dictionary

  1. hand-sanitiser
  2. hand-sanitisers
  3. hand-sanitizer
  4. hand-sanitizers
  5. Hand-Schüller-Christian disease
  6. hand-screen
  7. hand-screens
  8. hand-select
  9. hand-selected
  10. hand-selecting
  11. hand-selects

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hand-screen (page history and authors); hand screen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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