wainscot

[ US /ˈweɪnskət/ ]
[ UK /wˈe‍ɪnskɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
  2. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
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How To Use wainscot In A Sentence

  • Bring them visually down to size with a "beltline" - a horizontal division in the wall space that comes from using moulding, wainscoting or tile in the middle. The Seattle Times
  • 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? Querist
  • Note: Fees for the standard exhibition booth include those for exhibition space, 2.5-meters-high wainscot, making of lintel, negotiation table, two chairs, 220V mains socket and two spotlights .
  • This feeling is very strong in many apartment houses where small rooms are overburdened by this kind of wainscot, and to make matters worse, the top is used as a plate-rail. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
  • Oak flooring in the rest of the unit has been refinished and is accented with gumwood wainscoting in some rooms. Globe and Mail
  • Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets. How the Poor Die
  • Old fir flooring, recovered from a demolished building, finds new life as wainscot in the Ecotrust Building, Portland, Oregon.
  • This is most stunningly displayed in the show's chief highlight, a re - creation of the dining room first exhibited in the 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by Stickley in Syracuse, N.Y. The room incorporates the handsome, massive furniture in a setting where everything from the oak-and-burlap wainscot to the pottery vessels on the table and sideboard was designed or overseen by Stickley himself. Four-Square Reformer
  • It calmed me so much so that I was totally unalarmed when I saw a large black spider go scuttling by along the wainscotting.
  • The timber wainscot, panelling has been painted with a timber grain scumble.
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