WordNet
n. rail or narrow shelf fixed to a wall to display plates
Usage examples of "plate rail".
It was a wonderful house: upstairs a big bathroom and a smaller one, a little bathroom downstairs adjacent to a maid's room, four bedrooms and a sleeping porch, a living-room, a parlour, a proper dining-room with a built-in china closet and a plate rail, a gas log in the parlour in what could be a fireplace for logs if the gas log was removed, a wonderful big kitchen, a formal front staircase and a convenient back staircase leading from the kitchen, privately oh, just everything and anything that a family with children could want, including a fenced back yard just right for children and pets.
The walls were paneled, dark-brown wood and dark-green plaster, up to a wide plate rail on which reposed a collection of odd-shaped teapots.
Above the plate rail was a papered frieze, a hunk of woodland, a water mill, another hunk of woodland, and a picturesque cottage, repeated over and over all the way around the room.