Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wainscoted wall or walls; paneling.
- noun Material, such as wood, used for wainscoting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wainscot, or the material used for it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
- noun The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
wainscotting . - verb Alternative spelling of
wainscotting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively)
- noun wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
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Examples
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One hall leading to gates outside to long-distance buses heading west to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and north to the Pole was decorated in the Greek Renaissance style and furnished with Italian tapestries, Japanese lanterns, medieval armors, and carved-walnut wainscoting from a French château.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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It contains original details such as wainscoting, marble fireplaces and a grand marble and wrought-iron staircase.
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Engineered composite marble may be used as finished accents such as wainscoting, chair rails and flat panels for walls.
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I would like to give the tile a "wainscoting" look.
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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Outlets in the carpeted "wainscoting" right under the seats.
doggdot.us 2008
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They have thrown torches or firebrands into the hall; and it is all our friends can do to keep the flame from catching the wainscoting, which is old and dry.”
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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They have thrown torches or firebrands into the hall; and it is all our friends can do to keep the flame from catching the wainscoting, which is old and dry. "
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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Its walls are V-groove board wainscoting two-thirds of the way up to the ceiling.
A riverfront retreat, built with the long view Nancy McKeon 2010
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Lazarus stood just inside the door to the gatehouse, a ramshackle building empty save for a nest of mice whose droppings could be seen strewn across the dusty floors and piled in untidy heaps by the wainscoting.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The quiet, sharp-eyed servants had long since been sent to their attic bedchambers for the night to be replaced by the quieter, sharp-eyed mice who rustled the walls and wainscoting.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
tankexmortis commented on the word wainscoting
Ratcatcher: Oh, I gather you've got a little rodental problem.
Mrs Concrete: Oh, blimey. You'd think he was awake all the night, scrabbling down by the wainscoting.
Ratcatcher: Um, that's an interesting word, isn't it?
Mrs Concrete: What?
Ratcatcher: Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... Wainscoting ... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscoting.
Cut to the village of Wains Cotting. A woman rushes out of a house.
Woman: We've been mentioned on telly!
July 31, 2008