Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A molding or border above the base of a structure such as a baseboard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the crowning molding or cornice of a pedestal; a border or molding above a base, as the moldings immediately above the base-board or wainscoting of a room. See cut under
dado . - To depress; flatten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See
Illust. ofcolumn . - noun A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture the
uppermost part of themoulding of abaseboard , apedestal or a similarconstruct - verb architecture to
lower therise of anarch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The best parlor is a little, dingy room, low of ceiling, and skirted with a sombre-colored surbase, above which is papering, the original color of which it would be difficult to discover.
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She stood kicking her heel against the surbase, silently watching the sparkling machine.
The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann
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Rub the bedsteads in the joints with equal parts of spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, and the cracks of the surbase in rooms where there are many.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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The house is large and there was a number of apartments lighted up, which received great Addition from the manner in which all the fine rooms are furnished here, which is up to the surbase, where our rooms are painted, with a sort of china-tiles, as we do the inside of chimneys in England.
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For a final safeguard, Garson searched for and found the telephone bell-box on the surbase below the octagonal window.
Within the Law 1913
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For a final safeguard, Garson searched for and found the telephone bell-box on the surbase below the octagonal window.
Within the Law Bayard Veiller 1906
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In Paris there was no one afraid of her; no humble matrons to quail as her severe eyes surveyed wall and ceiling, floor and surbase.
The Lovels of Arden 1875
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To the top of the surbase is fourteen feet from the ground; on this rests a sarcophagus, seven feet three inches high, from which rises an obelisk forty-two feet eight inches in height, and the apex is two feet one inch.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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On the surbase is an inscription from the pen of Dr. Mills, stating the fact of the erection of the monument at the expense of Lord Dalhousie,
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Where, round the hall, the oak's high surbase rears
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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