Wiktionary
picture rails
n. (picture rail English)
Usage examples of "picture rails".
The walls are painted a dirty cream, and the skirting boards and picture rails as well as the door are stained in a deep mahogany brown.
Strings of Christmas cards hanging from picture rails and tasteful decorations in silver and burnished colours brighten the room, reminding Jeremy uncomfortably of the squalor which is his own bed-sit.
In the ^ormous hall with its two nights of stairs, giant swags of m, mistletoe and holly caught up with scarlet tassels hung in classic loops from the gallery and picture rails.
Disturbed for the first time in many years, the bats which hung from the tilting picture rails flew frantically for the windows, dispersing with cries of pain in the brilliant sunlight.