chair-railed

adjective

Having a chair rail or rails.

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Meanings

adjectivechair-railed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a chair rail or rails.

    I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls.

    2015 February 3, Lee Kelly, “Sarah”, in City of Savages, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 388
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    Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen.

    1967 November 9, K[arl] M. Light Real Estate, “Tiger’s Lair!”, in Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., →OCLC, page 21, column 5

    Mixed with the cow hair, Sapper’s plaster stuck to and between the laths like glue. The smooth surface was perfect, so were the picture-railed and chair-railed walls.

    1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69

    Every room in the house is panelled, wainscotted, chair-railed, and detailed with some traditional country-themed wood detail.

    2015 November 3, Sarah Richardson, “Paisley Acres”, in At Home: Sarah Style, Toronto, Ont.: Simon & Schuster Canada, →ISBN, page 189

Origin

From chair rail + -ed.

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APA

chair-railed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chair-railed

MLA

“chair-railed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chair-railed. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chair-railed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chair-railed.

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