picture rail

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   rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures

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Questions about picture rail

What does picture rail mean?

picture rail means "rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures".

Is picture rail a common word?

picture rail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.