The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wainscot \Wain"scot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wainscoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wainscoting.] To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.
Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than
hanged.
--Bacon.
The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
(alternative spelling of wainscotted English) v
(alternative spelling of wainscotted English)
WordNet
adj. used of walls; decorated with panels or wainscoting [syn: paneled]
Usage examples of "wainscoted".
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.
She found nothing more to indicate how Barbara Ratsey had died or who had killed her, but did unearth a rosary hidden behind a panel in the wainscoted wall.
The floor was of oak, almost black with age, the walls were beautifully wainscoted and carved, and here and there tall armoured figures looked down upon me in disdainful silence.
When the task was done, over two years after its commencement, I viewed the great rooms, wainscoted walls, vaulted ceilings, mullioned windows, and broad staircases with a pride which fully compensated for the prodigious expense of the restoration.
She barely got to the wainscoted stair before someone had her by the waist.