"polescreen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949, The Antiquarian, page 8:",
          "text": "The most prized of the furnishings perhaps is the polescreen in the front parlor, whose needlepoint is dated the second half of the seventeenth century .",
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          "ref": "1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 130:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "His eyes rested absently on an embroidered polescreen, as if his mind had passed on to quite different matters.",
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        "A screen mounted on a pole."
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        "(now historical) A screen mounted on a pole."
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          "ref": "1995, Joan Barzilay Freund, Masterpieces of Americana, page 33:",
          "text": "The eighteenth-century designer Thomas Sheraton once qualified the purpose of a polescreen or firescreen as \" a piece of furniture to shelter the face or legs from the fire . \"",
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          "ref": "1997, Joanna Banham, Encyclopedia of Interior Design:",
          "text": "The polescreen, with a sliding screen on a turned upright pole, four to five feet tall, supported on a tripod base, was also known as a screenstick in the late 17th century.",
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        "A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles."
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