wainscoting
Common misspellings:
-
- wainscoating (41.5%)
- wainscotting (53.0%)
- wainsbcotting (1.1%)
- wainscott (0.5%)
- waiscotting (2.2%)
- wainstcoating (1.6%)
Usage examples for wainscoting:
-
It
was,
in
its
way,
a
very
charming
room,
with
its
high
panelled
wainscoting
of
olive-
stained
oak,
its
cream-
colored
frieze
and
ceiling
of
raised
plaster-
work,
and
its
brick-
dust
felt
carpet
strewn
with
long-
fringed
silk
Persian
rugs.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" – Oscar Wilde
-
They
started
downward
then,
and
Fairchild,
creeping
as
swiftly
as
he
could,
hurried
under
the
protection
of
the
rotten
casing,
where
the
wainscoting
had
dropped
away
with
the
decay
of
years.
"The Cross-Cut" – Courtney Ryley Cooper
-
The
Emperor's
sleeping-
room,
the
only
part
of
the
building
in
which
there
was
a
fireplace,
was
ornamented
with
wainscoting
in
Chinese
lacquer
work,
then
very
old,
though
the
painting
and
gilding
were
still
fresh,
and
the
cabinet
was
decorated
like
the
bedroom;
and
all
the
apartments,
except
this,
were
warmed
in
winter
by
immense
stoves,
which
greatly
injured
the
effect
of
the
interior
architecture.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" – Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
