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