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screen
screen:
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Screen
goes back ultimately to a Frankish *
skrank
‘barrier’, a distant ancestor of German
schrank
‘cupboard’. This was taken over into Old Northern French as
escran
, and it was a variant form of this,
escren
, that became English
screen
.