mopboard

With a high wainscot and cornice painted ivory white, comparatively little paper is needed, which reduces the cost and permits a better paper than if the room had a simple mopboard and a tiny molding.

Soon, too, she made out the insistent gnawing of a rat behind the mopboard.

Will you—will you go over there in the corner by the door and look behind the mopboard?

The slightest sound broke his sleep—the gnawing of a mouse behind the mopboard, or a change in the wind; and then insomnia seized upon him.

The chair flew over backwards, Piker's feet made a lovely circle, an' his head tried to insinuate itself into the mopboard.