Meanings of wainscotting in English

Instead of wainscotting, the walls are covered with tapestry or damask.

The dining-room was very large, finished in oak, with a dark blue paper above the wainscotting.

The wainscotting which panels the upper floors and the portrait gallery is mildewed but still stout.

How well she remembered the low, spacious room, with its oak wainscotting, its book-cases and its pictures!

The wainscotting was caramel taffy.

The upper part of the house was carefully searched, the walls tapped, wainscotting pulled down, and the floors carefully examined.

This room was circular, very high, and without wainscotting, being hung with arras which I had myself chosen in London.

Afterward comes the inner framework of steel, and lastly a wainscotting of hard wood to give the compartments a finish.

Renfrew found that his plumb line, nailed to the wainscotting, weaved a full three inches out from the scuffed molding.

Ceilings of mahogany, a bronze of colored glass of bamboo, wainscotting of rosewood inlaid with mother of pearl and brass.

You may as well go down to the kitchen for a pail of hot water and begin with the wainscotting in the hall.'

After the waiting-hall she crossed a great round antechamber where servants in respectful rows made a living wainscotting to the high, blank wall.

The Sala del Collegio itself, leading from this room, is full of Doges in all the magnificence of paint, above the tawdriest of wainscotting.

The latter made a hole in the wainscotting and suspended them from strings, so that they fell within the plastered wall of the room below.

"They all ran away into holes in the wainscotting."

Instead of wainscotting, the walls are covered with tapestry or damask.