Meaning of skirting board | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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