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- noun Plural form of
skirting .
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Examples
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So of evenings he carved small plates of bone, none above the size of a finger-joint, to fit the double-sewn lining of the armor he intended for her: pigskin outside, on the shoulders, soft deerskin inside, and little lozenges of bone sewn into the lining of the shoulders, down the back, and around the ribs and on the skirtings.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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It may have been imported from all over the Empire to create skirtings, folding doors and luxury veneers, but my life mattered more.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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There were long skirtings of dark pines around a portion of the Squire's property, and at the back of the house there was a thick wood of firs running up to the top of what was there called the Beacon Hill.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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The buildings within the walls were mostly wooden, though some were raised on stone skirtings, and there was one built all of stone that was probably the chapel.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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They tapped the walls and sounded the skirtings, but without success.
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Goods manufactured under this classification include cotton warp checks and mixtures; all wool homespuns, mixture coatings and suitings, storm skirtings, rainproof cloths.
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= Coarse cloth of linen and wool used as skirtings by the British peasantry.
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Sweater had made from time to time and on several occasions had taken a lot of trouble to get just the right tints of certain colours, making up a number of different shades and combinations, and doing parts of the skirtings or mouldings of rooms in order that Mr Sweater might see exactly -- before they went on with it -- what it would look like when finished.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890
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The tops of the skirtings, the mouldings of the doors, the sashes of the windows and the corners of the floors were thick with the accumulated dust of years.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890
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You do the doors and windows, and let 'im do the cupboards and skirtings.'
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890
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