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fire screen

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fire screen
n.
See fireguard.

fire screen
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a decorative screen placed in the hearth when there is no fire
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a screen placed before a fire to protect the face from intense heat
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Noun1.fire screen - a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)
screen - a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame; "they put screens in the windows for protection against insects"; "a metal screen protected the observers"


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A general scrubbing of the hearth and fire screen with a special solution designed to clean brick and concrete is also a good idea, says Brian Peacock, assistant manager of Orchard Supply Hardware in Canoga Park.
Many of those poems--originally published in Water Street (1962), Nights and Days (1966), The Fire Screen (1969), and Braving the Elements (1972)--involve Merrill's existential and erotic ruminations on his male lovers, including his life partner, David Jackson.
Coverage includes architectural ironmongery, doors, fire doors, fire linings, fire protection materials, fire resisting cables, fire resisting glass, fire resisting partitions, fire screens, intumescent seals, linings, and structural fire resisting products.
 
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