wainscotting
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
wainscotting (uncountable)
- Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- The giggles got louder and ran around the corners of the room like rats behind the wainscotting.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- wainscot (countable)
- French: lambris
- German: Fußbodenleiste, Lambris
- Spanish: revestimiento
- present participle of wainscot#English|wainscot
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