were wainscoting
- past progressive of wainscot.
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The sides of the car were wainscoting of plain surface done in a Flemish stain rubbed down to a dull finish.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William