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Wooden panel used to line the walls of a room
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wainscotting
Word definitions for wainscotting in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) [syn: wainscoting ] wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: wainscot , wainscoting ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls. n. wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls. vb. (present participle of wainscot English)
Usage examples of wainscotting.
Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.
The room where I stood boasted rosewood wainscotting, mahogany ceiling beams, a wall of bookshelves loaded down, and furniture for entertaining a platoon.
The redcap scuttled under chairs and over tables, hiding in every possible nook and cranny, trying always to make it to the door or to the wainscotting, but somehow Cord was always there first to drive it back.
Like the door facing the desk, through which Lando had been escorted, both were framed in plain undecorative alumabronze, the spare motif echoed in wainscotting, baseboards, and a border around the high, somehow intimidating ceiling.