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skirting-board

skirting-board is the alternative spelling of skirting board.

Meaning of skirting board

Noun

skirting board (plural skirting boards)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, interior decoration) A panel, normally made of wood, between the floor and the interior wall of a structure, or placed in a position that is subject to repeated knocks.
    • But these little tunnels, emerging into the open at Finchley Road (reached in 1879) were the start of something big. By the early twentieth century it would be possible to think of them as two mouseholes in the skirting board of a wall separating two great ballrooms.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 51

Forms of skirting-board

pluralskirting-boards

Questions about skirting-board

What is skirting-board the alternative spelling of?
Skirting-board is the alternative spelling of skirting board.

Words near skirting-board in the dictionary

  1. skirties
  2. skirting
  3. skirting around
  4. skirting board
  5. skirting boards
  6. skirting-board
  7. skirting-boards
  8. skirtingly
  9. skirtings
  10. skirtini
  11. skirtinis

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