Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The narrow board placed round the bottom of the wall of a room, next the floor. Also called base-board, mopboard, and wash-board.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
skirting board .
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Examples
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The white paint of the skirting-board and the picture-rail could be, and the paintwork of the door and the window-frames.
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It lay hard up against the skirting-board beneath the still unwashed window.
Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994
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He opened his eyes, blinking warm sweat away, and gazed with trembling relief at the bubbled pink paintwork of the skirting-board, six inches from his nose: his arms, his shoulders, his entire back, aching from the strain of wrestling with that eternal bloody burning beam.
Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992
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He hitched a wary eye over the window-sill, saw that the telephone operator, his back almost directly to him, was talking animatedly on the phone, lifted himself another six indies, observed a cable of what appeared to be exactly similar dimensions to the one he was holding running along the skirting-board to some point behind the exchange and then not reappearing again.
Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967
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Turning to the left he opened a door into a small library, which was lined with books from skirting-board to cornice; a ripe fire glowed upon the hearth, and two easy full-bottomed leathern chairs stood on either side.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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There he lay down on the floor between the stove and the skirting-board.
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The dog fell asleep under the table as he was gnawing a bone; the cat in front of a mouse-hole, the mouse itself on the other side of the skirting-board, with its little sharp nose outstretched to sniff the air suspiciously.
The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Rackham 1913
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Anna Maria went down by way of the skirting-board and a window shutter to the kitchen to steal the dough.
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It was while he was thus engaged that a faint rustle aroused his attention, and looking towards the corner of the room whence it proceeded, he saw a large rat crouching by the skirting-board watching him with malevolent eyes.
The Shrieking Pit 1907
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Presently there was a little scuffling, scratching noise in a corner near the fireplace, where there was a hole under the skirting-board.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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