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skirting boards

skirting boards is the plural 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

Questions about skirting boards

What is skirting boards the plural of?
Skirting boards is the plural of skirting board.

Words near skirting boards in the dictionary

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

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