Definitions

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  • noun A construction material made from expanded polystyrene.

Etymologies

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bead +‎ board

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Examples

  • The spacious foyer, kitchen, informal dining area and family room flow together and are unified by color and traditional architectural details, such as beadboard wainscoting.

    Cincinnati.Com - All Local News 2008

  • Some of the special features that the Wahlers enhanced were a sleeping porch, a octagonal-shaped room with single-hung windows that dropped into the wall, to allow cool air to blow in during the night, and beadboard used on the porch and ceilings, which Robert Wahler described as wood with beads of detail which interlock like a wooden floor.

    BHA in the Asbury Park Press « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Some of the special features that the Wahlers enhanced were a sleeping porch, a octagonal-shaped room with single-hung windows that dropped into the wall, to allow cool air to blow in during the night, and beadboard used on the porch and ceilings, which Robert Wahler described as wood with beads of detail which interlock like a wooden floor.

    2009 January « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Some of the special features that the Wahlers enhanced were a sleeping porch, a octagonal-shaped room with single-hung windows that dropped into the wall, to allow cool air to blow in during the night, and beadboard used on the porch and ceilings, which Robert Wahler described as wood with beads of detail which interlock like a wooden floor.

    2009 January 08 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Venetian plaster with a shiny look modeled after the bark of a silver birch tree replaced walls of white beadboard.

    Going Glamorous Zen 2010

  • The walls of white beadboard are gone, replaced with a Venetian plaster with a shiny look modeled after the bark of a silver birch tree.

    Filmmaker's Home, Take 2 2010

  • Rose floral wallpaper above the wainscoting and beadboard.

    Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010

  • I put up beadboard paneling like that on a wall in our house.

    At the Striped Wall With Tulips Low-Angle Café... Ann Althouse 2009

  • Some of the special features that the Wahlers enhanced were a sleeping porch, a octagonal-shaped room with single-hung windows that dropped into the wall, to allow cool air to blow in during the night, and beadboard used on the porch and ceilings, which Robert Wahler described as wood with beads of detail which interlock like a wooden floor.

    BHA in the Asbury Park Press « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Some of the special features that the Wahlers enhanced were a sleeping porch, a octagonal-shaped room with single-hung windows that dropped into the wall, to allow cool air to blow in during the night, and beadboard used on the porch and ceilings, which Robert Wahler described as wood with beads of detail which interlock like a wooden floor.

    2009 January 08 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

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