Usage examples for wainscot:

• 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