In building, timber-work serving to line the walls of a room, being made in panels.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To line with boards; as, to wainscot a hall.
2. Music sounds better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.
3. To line with different materials.
4. The other is wainscoted with looking-glass.
1. Oaken timber or boarding.
2. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
3. Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
Lined with boards or panels.
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Lining with boards.
1. The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
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Base Roget’s Thesaurus §211
N. base, basement, plinth, dado, wainscot, baseboard, mopboard, bedrock, hardpan, foundation, substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck, footing, ground work, basis, hold, bilge, bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root, centerboard
Adj. bottom, undermost, nethermost, fundamental, founded on, based on, grounded on, built on
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