picture-railed

adjective

Having a picture rail or rails.

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Meanings

adjectivepicture-railed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a picture rail or rails.

    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
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    Mirrored and picture-railed, it was all a waste of space. And time. The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.

    1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34

    There wasn't a room that had not been clad, picture-railed, dadoed, panelled, stained, gilded, bordered and generally made over to within an inch of its life - can I interest anyone in a gold cherubic sconce?

    2000 September 23, Michele Jenkinson, “West Country Living: My blind date with my new home”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

Origin

From picture rail + -ed.

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