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wainscoting

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1. wainscoting - Noun

2. wainscoting - Verb

Meaning

of Wainscot

The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.

The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Some voices never manage to break properly. But in all good men there lurks a true note, I won't say like a mouse in a trap, but rather like a mouse between wall and wainscoting. Halldór Laxness

We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. Harry Harrison (writer)

It too has a fireplace — you’ll soon discover that most of the rooms in this house have one, much as an 18th-century house would — along with wainscoting, deep-silled windows, a built-in bookcase and Clarence House wallpaper. Source: Internet

…to the study with its mahogany wainscoting, trim and built-in bookcases. Source: Internet

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