chair-railed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a chair rail or rails.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "I ran down the torch-lit library stairs of the Carlyle, rounded the sharp, chair-railed corners of the halls."
- "Every room in the house is panelled, wainscotted, chair-railed, and detailed with some traditional country-themed wood detail."
Etymology
From chair rail + -ed.