forescreen

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ screen.

Noun

forescreen (plural forescreens)

1. A screen placed in front of something.
   • 1974, Susan Regan McKillop, Franciabigio, page 59:

     The third [predella] […] is less successful overall, but it continues at an early date the idea of a pilaster forescreen through which the viewer looks to see events behind.

   • 2013, Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos:

     We could just catch a glimpse of the haloed warriors and elders in the frescoes, the shine of the ikons, and the heavily armed forescreen of the altar.

Anagrams

• conferrees, ferrocenes, re-enforces, reenforces