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wainscot
(architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
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[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
He examined the tree of his genealogy, which, emblazoned with many an emblematic mark of honour and heroic achievement, hung upon the well-varnished wainscot of his hall.
Any of various noctuid moths.
To decorate a wall with a type of wooden paneling.
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