What is "skirting boards"

Usage examples of "skirting boards".

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.

Directly in front of them, faintly illuminated by a grimy skylight, was a medium-sized room some fifteen feet square, empty except for the dust silted up against the skirting boards.

It was no louder than the din of a cockroach running behind the skirting boards.

Already the blood on the floor was crawling away toward the wall where Frank was, the beads seeming to boil and evaporate as they came within range of the skirting boards.

Be sure to get all the cracks and crannies and around the skirting boards.

Most of the plaster had slipped from the walls and lay in grey heaps along the skirting boards.

Then she returned to sanding the doors, and completing the skirting boards.

There was nothing museum-like about this home--the skirting boards in the boy's bedroom were scored by the heel marks of a healthy teenager.

When I take a room I look around the skirting boards for mouse holes.

There were paintings and drawings everywhere, not just covering the wood-panelled walls, but resting against the skirting boards, too.

The detective had cut open Rudy's mattress and springs, inspected cupboard and drawers, unscrewed switches, tapped skirting boards, disassembled and assembled the flat again, and found nothing.

The boards underfoot had been overlaid with a worn sheet of linoleum that stopped several inches short of the skirting boards all around.

Then, as grilles in the skirting boards began blowing warm air, and various small lights flickered into life on the office equipment, he took out another glass from a desk drawer, topped up the Russian Premier's drink (while wondering if he still was or would be the Premier), and poured a double for himself.

The skirting boards, beneath the water-stained wallpaper, were disfigured by tin plates that had been nailed over rat holes and, in the silence that followed the Emperor's greeting, Sharpe could hear the dry scratching of rats' feet in the cavities behind the tin patched wall.

Light pours round her thickened, monolithic silhouette, transfiguring the bare floor of the room, illuminating where it spills out on to the landing rolls of dust beneath cream painted skirting boards.