skirting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of skirt

plural skirtings

1. countableuncountableSkirting boards collectively.

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

   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

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

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

2. countableuncountableskirts collectively; material for skirts
3. countableuncountableThe act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.

   […] 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; […]

   1982, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research