polescreens

Noun

polescreen (plural polescreens)

1. (historical) A screen mounted on a pole.
   • 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 .1949, The Antiquarian, page 8
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 . "1995, Joan Barzilay Freund, Masterpieces of Americana, page 33