wainscot
noun
wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
wainscots
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present tense formof wainscot (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Old paintings on its wainscots, And, in its oaken hall, Old arras; and the twilight Of slumber over all.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
The mice trembled with fear behind the wainscots, and the crickets shrunk back into their farthest holes, for they understood well enough that their reign was over for the present.
From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Frances Freeling Broderip
The small rectangular plaques with which several cases and many drawers are filled in the British Museum may very well have been used for the decoration of doors, and the panels of ceilings and wainscots.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
He has sat on the old chairs and sofas, and rubbed against the old wainscots, and leaned over the old balusters.
From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James
She assured him that the noise was nothing, and the little novelties of holes in her dining-room floor and broken wainscots in her drawing-room would be rather amusing than otherwise.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
