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chair-railed

chair-railed adjective: having a chair rail or rails.

Adjective

chair-railed (not comparable)

  1. Having a chair rail or rails.
    • Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen.1967 November 9, K[arl] M. Light Real Estate, “Tiger’s Lair!”, in Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, column 5
    • Mixed with the cow hair, Sapper’s plaster stuck to and between the laths like glue. The smooth surface was perfect, so were the picture-railed and chair-railed walls.1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69

Examples of chair-railed in a sentence

  • I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls.2015 February 3, Lee Kelly, “Sarah”, in City of Savages, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 388:
  • Every room in the house is panelled, wainscotted, chair-railed, and detailed with some traditional country-themed wood detail.2015 November 3, Sarah Richardson, “Paisley Acres”, in At Home: Sarah Style, Toronto, Ont.: Simon & Schuster Canada, →ISBN, page 189:

Origin of chair-railed

From chair rail + -ed.

Questions about chair-railed

What does chair-railed mean?
Chair-railed means having a chair rail or rails.
How do you use chair-railed in a sentence?
I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls.
What part of speech is chair-railed?
Chair-railed is an adjective.

Words near chair-railed in the dictionary

  1. chair umpire
  2. chair umpires
  3. chair up
  4. chair-lift
  5. chair-lifts
  6. chair-railed
  7. chair-seater
  8. chair-seaters
  9. chairback
  10. chairbacks
  11. chairbed

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