Wainscot

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  • noun. A facing or paneling, usually of wood, applied to the walls of a room.
  • noun. The lower part of an interior wall when finished in a material different from that of the upper part.
  • transitive verb. To line or panel (a room or wall) with wainscoting.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fine kind of foreign oak-timber, not so liable to cast or warp as English oak, easily worked with tools, and used at first for any kind of paneled work, and afterward in other ways.
  • noun. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels; paneled boards on the walls of rooms. Originally this lining or paneling was made of wainscot-oak.
  • noun. One of certain noctuid moths: an English collectors' name.
  • To line or panel with wainscot: as, to wainscot a hall.
  • To line or panel in the manner of wainscoting, with material other than oak, or, more generally, than wood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Oaken timber or boarding.
  • noun. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
  • noun. Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.
  • transitive verb. To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
  • verb. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
  • noun. wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
  • Word Usage
    "Whether we may not, for the same use, manufacture divers things at home of more beauty and variety than wainscot, which is imported at such expense from Norway?"
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