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skirtings

skirtings is the plural of skirting.

Meaning of skirting

Noun

skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)

  1. Skirting boards collectively.
    • Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
  2. skirts collectively; material for skirts
  3. The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
    • […] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

Questions about skirtings

What is skirtings the plural of?
Skirtings is the plural of skirting.

Words near skirtings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skirtings (page history and authors); skirting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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