wainscot
IPA: wˈeɪnskʌt
noun
- (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
- Any of various noctuid moths.
verb
- To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
Examples of "wainscot" in Sentences
- They're behind the wainscotting.
- The plaster walls have marble wainscot.
- The same marble is used for the wainscot.
- Part of these came from an earlier wainscotting.
- The halls were wainscoted in marble and mahogany.
- The walls are lined with Italian marble wainscotting.
- The walls are of birch and maple combined with wainscoting.
- The interior is furnished with maple floors and beaded wood wainscot.
- The baseboard, wainscot, and counters are white marble with gold veins.
- Water flooded the church as high as the top of the wainscoting on the walls.