skirting board
Britishnoun
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A momentous river of garbage rolls down the conveyor: cardboard boxes, splintered skirting board, plastic bottles, crisp packets, DVD cases, printer cartridges, countless newspapers, including this one.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2019
He said he put the bag in the airing cupboard, and "a couple of bits" behind a skirting board with a yellow duster.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2015
The accompanying drawing is of the interior of an empty room, its door open, with an asterisk on the skirting board.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
He points down, near the skirting board, and I see that what I thought was an electrical socket is a miniature trompe l’oeil painting by Douglas Padgett.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2011
Then at one point Ruth was running a finger up and down the cassettes stacked in little piles along my skirting board.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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