Wainscoting
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative spelling of wainscotting. alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
"The floor, the wainscoting, were of mahogany—the walls were hung with the finest tapestry—and there were occasional spaces in which large mirrors had been set: but the mahogany was rough and discoloured, the tapestry rent and faded, and the mirrors either wholly gone, and their places filled by matting, or by fragments smashed and shivered in every direction."
- 2 wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room wordnet
- 3 a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) wordnet
- 1 Alternative spelling of wainscotting. alt-of, alternative
Example
More examples"The floor, the wainscoting, were of mahogany—the walls were hung with the finest tapestry—and there were occasional spaces in which large mirrors had been set: but the mahogany was rough and discoloured, the tapestry rent and faded, and the mirrors either wholly gone, and their places filled by matting, or by fragments smashed and shivered in every direction."
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