Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A screen placed in front of a hearth to shield the rest of room from the fire.
Usage examples of "firescreen".
They were everywhere, in increasing numbersunder the bed, in the folds of the curtains and the canopy, falling with soft, heavy plops from the damask pelmet and the frilled valance like malignant raindrops, jammed, wriggling in corners, swarming up the elegant brass legs of the firescreen, smothering the matching firedogs, crawling up the gold-inlaid piers of the lacquered table, upsetting the bowl of oranges upheld on its silver pedestal by four winged babies.
Gold glittered everywhere: encrusted on the walls and the heavy frames of the paintings that adorned them, on the embroidered chairs, the ornate ceiling, the solid gold firescreens.
Garments festooned tables, chairs, firescreens or waited in orderly piles.
Tardy's a born pyromaniac—he's set more firescreens than the rest of us put together.
She slumped sedately to the flowered carpet, managing to avoid hitting any of the furniture-no small feat since the room contained a large round rosewood table, a small triangular table with a tintype album on it, a mahogany table with a bouquet of wax flowers under a glass dome on it, a horsehair sofa, a damask loveseat, a Windsor chair, a Morris chair, a Chesterfield chair, several ottomans, a writing desk, a bookcase, a knick-knack cabinet, a whatnot, a firescreen, a harp, an aspidistra, and an elephants foot.