Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A moulding applied to or recessed into the surface of a wall, and used to suspend hooks and cables attached to paintings, framed art or mirrors. The moulding is usually continuous around the room.
WordNet
n. rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures
Usage examples of "picture rail".
All those blue ribbons drawing-pinned to the picture rail in the front room, and he can only look at them but can never hear people tell him how clever he is.
Much against my will therefore, as the label specifically stated `dry clean only', I washed the raincoat thoroughly several times in my sink, hanging it from the picture rail to dry.
Crown moldings, a picture rail, wainscoting, and baseboards were all turned out by Don's own hand.
But in the middle of the table, Malinari's fire-scorched battle gauntlet sat like a grotesque, eighteen-inch, grey-metal alien insect, and on one otherwise naked wall a four-by-five-foot flat-screen viewer was hanging from the picture rail.
Along the acoustical-tile ceiling, a picture rail was festooned with strands of fake ivy and hung with framed reproductions of sports art, football dominant.
The walls, which had probably been papered when the house was built, were painted a pleasing blue-gray that reached to an oak picture rail.
It was wood-panelled like the hall, but boasted only a few small paintings hanging from a picture rail.
She did not deliberately secrete them behind the washbasin in the bathroom or between the sheet and the mattress, or hang them from the picture rail.
As the tapestries were stened to the wall fron rods on a picture rail, she could look beneath then and tap the bright orange-dyed rla wall for hollov places.
Over the desk was a bare light bulb, its flex anchored to the picture rail by a length of twine.
High up on the wall above the picture rail a large clock tick-tocked away the sparse daylight hours.