Fireboard

Origin

fire + board

Full definition of fireboard

Noun

1. A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
• 1851, Herman Melville, ,I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.