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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.
Any of various noctuid moths.
To decorate a wall with a type of wooden paneling.