picture moulding

British  

noun

1. the edge around a framed picture

2. Also called: picture rail.  the moulding or rail near the top of a wall from which pictures can be hung

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Example Sentences

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

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The dining-room should be darkened and wires drawn across from side to side, fastened to the picture moulding; from these may be hung a dozen or more very small paper lanterns, some over the table and others about the room.

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

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This space should be finished with a picture moulding, and the four superfluous feet of wall above it must be treated as a part of the ceiling.

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There still remain two feet of space between the picture moulding and ceiling-line which may be treated as a ceiling-border in inconspicuous design upon the same cream ground, the design to be in darker, but of the same tint as the ceiling.

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