wainscot
noun
wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
wainscotted
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past participleof wainscot.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof wainscot.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
wainscotnounwood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
Example Sentences
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With a globe on his desk and roll-down maps on the wall of his elegantly wainscotted office, he could be found high in the iconic Chrysler Building in the heart of New York City.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2016
Wooden staircases, exposed wooden balusters, and wainscotted walls, coated with paints composed of oil and turpentine, and put together more like a train of combustibles, than the habitations of beings calling themselves rational!
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
They went into the brown parlour of the inn, the cheerful, wainscotted parlour, where Branwell had so often lorded it over his boon companions from his great three-cornered chair.
From Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
The room used for lessons was a wide, pleasant place, rather low in the roof, plainly panelled and wainscotted in dark oak, with a single line of dull gold beading running about it high up.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
They shone, too, on the figure of an old man, seated near an open casement, in the wainscotted library.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles
