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Fire screen   /fˈaɪər skrin/   Listen
Fire screen

noun
1.
A metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks).  Synonym: fireguard.





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... portraits, opening into a room literally all fireplace. Here there were gouty sofas, and five or six big easy-chairs ranged in a half-circle, with arms held out as if begging somebody to sit in them; and here, too, was an embroidered worsted fire screen that slid up and down a standard, to shield one's face from the blazing logs; and there were queer tables and old-gold curtains looped back with brass rosettes—ears really—behind which the tresses of the parted curtains were tucked; and there were more old portraits in dingy ...
— The Little Gray Lady - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith
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