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Meanings of wainscot in English

Portuguese
painel

Wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room.

painel

Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall.

Usage of wainscot in English
1
Listen. And he jerked his thumb in the direction of the wainscot.
The Tavern Knight
2
The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
3
The young man rose and walked to the wainscot and back again.
Tales of the Chesapeake
4
When my grandfather died I had the wainscot door cemented in.
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
5
And with a crayon he made drawings on the wainscot of the room.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
6
The high-moulded wainscot was of red and green porphyry, somberly smooth and shining.
The Unwilling Vestal
7
Above the wainscot, the dull tapestried walls reached to a ceiling richly panelled.
The Poor Little Rich Girl
8
The woman turns upon him her wainscot face and promises amendment.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
9
Indented,-forwant of writing materials,-witha key on the wainscot of his cell.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
10
Then opening a door in the wainscot near the fireplace he flung it in.
Elsie Marley, Honey
11
Dorcas, in our absence, tried to get at the wainscot-box in the dark closet.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
12
A screen of wainscot partitioned off the lobby, carved in panels of grotesque workmanship.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
13
Here I am, just like a rat in the wainscot.
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
14
The partitions and walls were of wainscot-work, with mouldings about the doors and windows.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 / Bay Stat...
15
That floor space was bare; a rug, rolled up, rested against the further wainscot.
The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Gra...
16
For the most part it lay between wall and wainscot.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
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painel
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