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skirting

noun C2
  1. Skirting boards collectively. (countable, uncountable)
  2. skirts collectively; material for skirts (countable, uncountable)
  3. The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it. (countable, uncountable)

Plural skirtings

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From under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 68 · B2
I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 99 · B2

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