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wainscoting
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What does wainscoting mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of wainscotting.
verb
- 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.