SKIRTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skirting mean? 

• SKIRTING (adjective)
  The adjective SKIRTING has 1 sense:

1. being all around the edges; enclosing

  Familiarity information: SKIRTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIRTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being all around the edges; enclosing

Synonyms:

encircling; skirting

Context example:

the room's skirting board needs painting

Similar:

peripheral (on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area)

 Context examples 

There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)