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skirting board en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, qualifier:interior decoration) A panel, normally made of wood, between the floor and the interior wall of a structure, or placed in a position that is subject to repeated knocks.
   • But these little tunnels, emerging into the open at Finchley Road (reached in 1879) were the start of something big. By the early twentieth century it would be possible to think of them as two mouseholes in the skirting board of a wall separating two great ballrooms. 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 51:

Forms

Synonyms

skirtboard · baseboard

Translations (41)

arz سفل (panel between floor and interior wall) · hu szegélyléc (panel between floor and interior wall) · gl rodapé (panel between floor and interior wall) · sv golvlist (panel between floor and interior wall) · de Fußbodenleiste (panel between floor and interior wall) · es friso (panel between floor and interior wall) · pt rodapé (panel between floor and interior wall) · mi pāpaka (panel between floor and interior wall) · de Fußleiste (panel between floor and interior wall) · no golvlist (panel between floor and interior wall) · fr plinthe (panel between floor and interior wall) · pl listwa przypodłogowa (panel between floor and interior wall) · ca sòcol (panel between floor and interior wall) · nb fotlist (panel between floor and interior wall) · tr süpürgelik (panel between floor and interior wall) · nl voetlijst (panel between floor and interior wall) · yue 矮傍水 (panel between floor and interior wall) · ga clár sciorta (panel between floor and interior wall) · mi pōitoito (panel between floor and interior wall) · ru пли́нтус (panel between floor and interior wall) · ro plintă (panel between floor and interior wall) · nb gulvlist (panel between floor and interior wall) · it salvamuro (panel between floor and interior wall) · hu szegőléc (panel between floor and interior wall) · es zócalo (panel between floor and interior wall) · it battiscopa (panel between floor and interior wall) · hy շրիշակ (panel between floor and interior wall) · cmn 踢腳板 /踢脚板 (panel between floor and interior wall) · uk плінтус (panel between floor and interior wall) · fi jalkalista (panel between floor and interior wall) · es rodapié (panel between floor and interior wall) · ca entornpeu (panel between floor and interior wall) · de Scheuerleiste (panel between floor and interior wall) · eo plankoplinto (panel between floor and interior wall) · fa قرنیز (panel between floor and interior wall) · eu errodapi (panel between floor and interior wall) · et liist (panel between floor and interior wall) · nl plint (panel between floor and interior wall) · el σοβατεπί (panel between floor and interior wall) · mi pae kākaho (panel between floor and interior wall) · ja 幅木 (panel between floor and interior wall)