wainscot
Common misspellings:
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- wainscotting (8.3%)
- wainscott (50.0%)
- wainscoat (33.3%)
- wainscote (8.3%)
Usage examples for wainscot:
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Behind the wainscot on either side was a spacious closet which I carefully explored with two lighted bedroom candles to show me that the closets were entirely empty.
"Recollections of a Varied Life" – George Cary Eggleston -
It is an old English word, and means overlaid or lined with wood, wainscot or plank, either roof, sides, or floor.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3" – John Bunyan -
The earliest chairs were cumbersome, being fashioned of oak with solid square backs, often panelled, and thus were known as " wainscot chairs."
"Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17" – Annie Lash Jester -
Crool it was, he used to say: all that beautiful wainscot oak, as good as the day it was put up, and garlands- like of foliage and fruit, and lovely old gilding work on the coats of arms and the organ pipes.
"A Thin Ghost and Others" – M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James