OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 34216

wainscot

/ˈweɪnskɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arrimadero
An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.
Phrases
Word forms