Meaning of Wainscot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
2. Any of various noctuid moths.

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Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

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