skirting board

See also: skirting-board

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

skirting board (plural skirting boards)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, finish carpentry, interior decorating) 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
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 51:

     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.

Synonyms

• baseboard

Translations

panel between floor and interior wall

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: سفل m (sefl)

• Armenian: շրիշակ (hy) (šrišak)
• Basque: errodapi
• Catalan: entornpeu m, rodapeu m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 矮傍水

  Mandarin: 踢腳板／踢脚板 (tījiǎobǎn)

• Dutch: plint (nl) f, voetlijst f
• Esperanto: plankoplinto
• Estonian: liist
• Finnish: jalkalista (fi)
• French: plinthe (fr) f
• Galician: rodapé
• German: Fußleiste (de) f; Fußbodenleiste f; Scheuerleiste f
• Greek: σοβατεπί (el) n (sovatepí)
• Hungarian: szegőléc (hu), szegélyléc (hu)
• Irish: clár sciorta m
• Italian: battiscopa (it) f, salvamuro m
• Japanese: 幅木 (はばき, habaki)
• Maori: pōitoito, pae kākaho, pāpaka
• Norwegian: golvlist c
• Persian: قرنیز (fa)
• Polish: listwa przypodłogowa f
• Portuguese: rodapé (pt) m
• Romanian: plintă (ro)
• Russian: пли́нтус (ru) m (plíntus)
• Spanish: rodapié (es) m, zócalo (es) m
• Swedish: golvlist (sv) c
• Ukrainian: плінтус (plintus)