Skirting

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.

Sheer o'er the highest roof-top to the sky, / skirting the parapet, a watch-tower rose, / whence camp and fleet and city met the eye.

The documentary pulled its punches, skirting round some crucial questions.

Will you stop skirting around it?

"Have you finished painting the living room?" "No, I've still got the skirting boards to do."

After traversing Hungary and Bohemia, skirting the Adriatic to Wallachia, and following the banks of the Danube, we arrived at Constantinople.

For we are skirting the base of Mount Eryx, now Monte Giuliano, whence Acestes the king came down to meet Aeneas when he landed on his return from Carthage; and where Aeneas—so they say—founded the town of Acesta, which afterwards became Egesta, and is now Segesta.

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

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

[…] 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; […]