skirting board

1. 1.

   a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor

   Synonymsbaseboardmopboard

   Broadermolding

Questions about skirting board

What does skirting board mean?

skirting board means "a molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor".

What is another word for skirting board?

Close synonyms include baseboard, mopboard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skirting board a common word?

skirting board 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.