skirting board
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skirting board
noun skirting boards
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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.
Similar: baseboard, skirtboard
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noun panel between floor and interior wall
| Español | rodapié, zócalo, friso |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 幅木 habaki |
| 中文 | 踢腳板 /踢脚板 tījiǎobǎn |
| Português | rodapé |
| Français | plinthe |
| Deutsch | Fußleiste, Fußbodenleiste, Scheuerleiste |
| Italiano | battiscopa, salvamuro |
| Ελληνικά | σοβατεπί sovatepí |
| Română | plintă |
| Русский | пли́нтус plíntus |
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title = {skirting board},
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