mopboard

[ mop-bawrd, -bohrd ]

Origin of mopboard

1
1850–55, Americanism;mop1 + board, so called because it adjoins the floor surface, which is cleaned by a mop

Words Nearby mopboard

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How to use mopboard in a sentence

  • Will you—will you go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard?

    The Quickening | Francis Lynde
  • Soon, too, she made out the insistent gnawing of a rat behind the mopboard.

    The Girls of Hillcrest Farm | Amy Bell Marlowe
  • There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard.

    The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman

British Dictionary definitions for mopboard

mopboard

/ (ˈmɒpˌbɔːd) /


noun
  1. a US word for skirting board

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