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wainscot

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wainscot is a wooden panelling applied to an interior wall. Wainscot may also refer to: Wainscot (fiction) , a subgenre of fantasy fiction literature Moths Common Wainscot , a moth that is very pale Shoulder-striped Wainscot , a moth that has a thick black ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wainscot \Wain"scot\, n. [OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).] Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest [syn: dado ] wooden panel used to line the walls of a room [syn: wainscoting , wainscotting ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Its floors and wainscot were dark redwood, its walls a soft gray. ▪ They could hear the wood splintering under his teeth - a sound like a mouse in a shed wainscot at midnight.

Usage examples of wainscot.

The solid dark weight of the familiar furniture, the chest and aumbry, the chair and the prie-dieu stood out against the wainscot paneling behind them.

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.

There was a flat with the reddest of new carpets, tasselled portieres and six steins with pewter lids arranged on a ledge above the wainscoting of the dining-room.

Turner watercolour behind the wainscoting so we can ballock the boss and eagle off to Monte Carlo.

Emmeline entered her home by a hall pannelled with dark wainscot, and surrounded by carved doors, surmounted with heavy entablatures.

None of the internal walls had been lathed and plaistered let alone pannelled or wainscoted so that the naked brick was everywhere visible, except where it was obscured by hangings in the drawing-room.

Another Alsatia existed depths beneath the soot-rimed surface of timber, stone and thatch, behind a hundred wainscots and boarded entranceways.

The dark maroon carpet complemented the walnut wainscot and the stark white walls.

She propped it carefully on the wainscoting beside the hawkmoth, and left.

The oak wainscoting glowed golden with long and loving application of beeswax and turpentine even in this pallid early spring sunlight, while higher upon those same walls fanciful plasterwork ornamentation spread its delicate lacelike tracery against the darker cream of the lime-washed background.

Lavender paused for breath, and in the darkness a faint noise, as of a mouse scrattling at a wainscot, attracted his attention.

The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut,and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece.

Having crossed the foot of the stair-case, and passed through an ante-room, they entered a spacious apartment, whose walls, wainscoted with black larch-wood, the growth of the neighbouring mountains, were scarcely distinguishable from darkness itself.

It opened into a suite of spacious and ancient apartments, some of which were hung with tapestry, and others wainscoted with cedar and black larch-wood.

It was a spacious room, whose walls, wainscoted with rough oak, shewed no casement but the grated one, which Emily had left, and no other door than that, by which she had entered.