Definitions for wainscoting

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wainscoting wain·scot·ing

Spelling: [weyn-skoh-ting, -skot-ing, -skuh-ting]

IPA: /ˈweɪn skoʊ tɪŋ, -skɒt ɪŋ, -skə tɪŋ/

Wainscoting is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 671 anagrams from letters in wainscoting (acgiinnostw).

Definitions for wainscoting

noun

1. paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
2. wainscots collectively.
3. wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
4. the lining itself, especially as covering the lower portion of a wall.
5. a dado, especially of wood, lining an interior wall.
6. British. oak of superior quality and cut, imported from the Baltic countries for fine woodwork.

verb (used with object)

1. to line the walls of (a room, hallway, etc.) with or as if with woodwork:

Origin of wainscoting

First recorded in 1570-80; wainscot + -ing¹

Examples for wainscoting

All the wainscoting was made at Antwerp, as was also the glass for the windows.

A few prints on the wall and a wainscoting of books showed the owner's tastes.

You tap the wainscoting of the hall with your umbrella: “Oak,” you impress upon her, “all oak.”

It is the background for the furniture, and should be deeper than the dado or wainscoting.

Three or four yards of the wainscoting of the choir had burnt into atoms.

The doors were of mahogany as was likewise the wainscoting of the staircases.

My father brought the wainscoting from an old English country-house in Dorsetshire.

Then he staggered back against the wainscoting of the bower.

For example, “If you're standing, it's the direction you should look to check out the wainscoting.”

Has the wainscoting been examined lately, in the room you have put me in?