ˈskirting-board
[Cf. skirting vbl. n. 4.]
The narrow board placed round the wall of a room, etc., close to the floor.
| 1759 Phil. Trans. LI. 291 The floor, joints and projections of the skirting-board. 1771 E. Haywood New Present for Maid 256 Rubbing the skirting-boards with a piece of oily flannel. 1814 Southey in Q. Rev. XII. 185 The skirting board of the room was painted of that colour. 1861 Wynter Soc. Bees 25 A cracked window or a shrunken skirtingboard. |
| fig. 1859 Sala Gaslight & D. xxiii. 268 A woful skirting-board of crouching Irish paupers. |