Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of movable screen placed before a fire to intercept the heat.
- noun A woolen screen placed in the passageway from a powder-magazine whenever this is opened.
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Examples
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She quickly went to the low table in front of the fire-screen and grabbed a tap-pad, itching to make some notes before the moment passed. ‘First test for object number ZXY-4653: Made an eye-level trigger stare on object for approx. 30 seconds.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The girl, standing by the chimney-piece, apparently examining a transparent fire-screen, was listening to the sounds from the courtyard in a way that justified certain maternal fears.
Gobseck 2007
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The girl, standing by the chimney-piece, apparently examining a transparent fire-screen, was listening to the sounds from the courtyard in a way that justified certain maternal fears.
Gobseck 2007
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He had taken up a fire-screen, and was looking intently at the gauze.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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Victor meanwhile still played with the fire-screen.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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She took the fire-screen, that hung by the side of the chimney and held it before her face, now glancing at me, now turning away her eye, as if resolved to be displeased.
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Glass, for example, is transparent to light, but much less so to heat, so that it is useful as a fire-screen; and alum is transparent to light, but blocks heat completely.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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So she flitted — her figure, enlarging as it was, still allowed her to glide between table and chair — hither and thither; removed the fire-screen and set a light, before he could stop her, to the grudging lodging-house fire.
The Years 2004
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The still sky-blue walls, the green curtains patterned with red flowers and ferns; the crewel-worked fire-screen before the cast-iron grate; the mahogany cupboard with glass windows, full of little knick-knacks; the beaded footstools; Keats,
To Let 2004
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They wanted to read or take a cycle-ride in the evening, or perhaps March wished to paint curvilinear swans on porcelain, with green background, or else make a marvellous fire-screen by processes of elaborate cabinet work.
The Fox 2003
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