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Definition of Fireboards
1. fireboard [n] - See also: fireboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireboards
Literary usage of Fireboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... paper for screens or fireboards; paper, antiquarian, demy, drawing, elephant,
foolscap, imperial letter, and all other paper not otherwise provided for, ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"... on all paper hangings, or paper for screens or fireboards, thirty-five per
centum ad valorem ; on all blank or visiting cards, twelve cents per pound; ..."
3. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and ...by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"... note 3i) do. music with lines 10 rto, gilt or metal, not gold or silver 30 do.
for screens or fireboards CO do. all other not enumerated 3^ do. counting ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1842)
"Paper Hangings, or paper for Screens, or fireboards, per cent Blank, or Visiting
Cards,...per Ib. Playing Cards, per pack Asses Skin, and imitation thereof, ..."
5. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1888)
"... winter evenings and to aid in ventilation (no fireboards nor other devices to
cover these in warm weather). A bathroom, with hot and cold water supply. ..."
6. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America from by United States (1862)
"... not otherwise provided for ; paper hangings, and paper for screens or fireboards ;
paving stones ; paving and roofing tiles and bricks ; pearl or hulled ..."
7. Pencillings by the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1853)
"In America they would paint such an old church white or red, shove down the
pillars, and put up pews, sell the pictures for fireboards ..."
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