Sentence examples for fireguard from inspiring English sources
noun
A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
In a competition between a chocolate fireguard and an assistant referee, those peculiarly impotent additions vociferously promoted by Michel Platini as an alternative to video technology, the former would surely triumph when it came to usefulness.
One point of fascination, however, is a "meat hastener", a curved metal fireguard within which the roasting joint would have been hung from a hook and placed before an open fire.
"As for the A-list, it's about as much good as a chocolate fireguard.
If the domesticating fireguard of language is removed, then Facing the wide glare of the children's day, Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums We shall go mad no doubt and die that way.
If your house is more old-fashioned, buy a surround from a salvage yard, screw it to the wall and paint the inside of it black, as if it has been boarded over, or, if you are more creative, paint a bunch of flowers on it as the Victorians did on fireguards.
