picture moulding

noun

the edge around a framed picture
Also calledpicture rail the moulding or rail near the top of a wall from which pictures can be hung

Wires are stretched from picture moulding to picture moulding, and Japanese lanterns swing gayly from above.

The walls were hung with dull blue paper of a very rough texture set off by a narrow picture moulding of ivory white.

Finally on the picture-moulding I spied the celestial visitor.

I had to get the picture-moulding, though, and that was rather dear,—nearly two dollars.

The picture moulding may come pretty well down from the ceiling; certainly not higher than the tops of the doors.

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