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wainscoting

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What does wainscoting mean?

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of wainscotting.

verb

  1. Alternative spelling of wainscotting.

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The wainscoting is of silver and gold, and a perfume breathes through it more exquisite than the perfume of Lebanon.
Louis GinzbergThe Legends of the Jews — Volume 1Translated by Henrietta SzoldProject Gutenberg ebook #1493
He unlocked a secret press that was in the wainscoting, a press in which he kept his own curious disguises, and put them into it.
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayProject Gutenberg ebook #174
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The old wainscoting was garlanded with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which they had laid Marius down.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
Elnora followed down the hall and entered a long room with high panelled wainscoting, old English fireplace with an overmantel and closets of peculiar china filling the corners.
Gene Stratton-PorterA Girl of the LimberlostProject Gutenberg ebook #125
In a few seconds I forced him by sheer strength against the wainscoting, and thus, getting him at mercy, plunged my sword, with brute ferocity, repeatedly through and through his bosom.
Edgar Allan PoeThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #2148