chair-railed en · ADJ
Etymology
From chair rail + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a chair rail or rails.
Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen.
1967 November 9, K[arl] M. Light Real Estate, “Tiger’s Lair!”, in Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, column 5:Mixed with the cow hair, Sapper’s plaster stuck to and between the laths like glue. The smooth surface was perfect, so were the picture-railed and chair-railed walls.
1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69:I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls.
2015 February 3, Lee Kelly, “Sarah”, in City of Savages, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 388:Every room in the house is panelled, wainscotted, chair-railed, and detailed with some traditional country-themed wood detail.
2015 November 3, Sarah Richardson, “Paisley Acres”, in At Home: Sarah Style, Toronto, Ont.: Simon & Schuster Canada, →ISBN, page 189: