skirting

skirting

1. present participle and gerund of skirt

skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)

1. Skirting boards collectively.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.

   • 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:

     The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.

2. skirts collectively; material for skirts
3. The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
   • 1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research:

     […] superficial: many of their descriptions, together with their own candid and often amusing comments and reactions, are well worth noting and reflecting upon; their skirtings around the laws of defamation are a joy to read and a lesson to us all; […]

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