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picture-railed

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

Adjective

picture-railed (not comparable)

  1. Having a picture rail or rails.
    • 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
    • Mirrored and picture-railed, it was all a waste of space. And time. The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34

Origin of picture-railed

From picture rail + -ed.

Questions about picture-railed

What does picture-railed mean?
Picture-railed means having a picture rail or rails.
What part of speech is picture-railed?
Picture-railed is an adjective.

Words near picture-railed in the dictionary

  1. picture window
  2. picture windows
  3. picture-in-picture
  4. picture-perfect
  5. picture-postcardish
  6. picture-railed
  7. picture-skew
  8. picture-winged flies
  9. picture-winged fly
  10. pictureable
  11. picturebook

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