polescreen

English

Alternative forms

• pole-screen

Etymology

From pole +‎ screen.

Noun

polescreen (plural polescreens)

1. (now historical) A screen mounted on a pole. [from 18th c.]
   • 1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 130:

     The engravings, by J.-M. Delattre, were framed to make an attractive pair of Neoclassical shield-shaped pole-screens (sold by Sotheby's 18 May 1990, lot 202) around 1785.