wainscot
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Named for its historic 1920s Chateauesque building, Castle is a treasure box of prewar charm: lattice windows, crown-molding, wainscot, Art Deco tile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Install them floor to ceiling or only halfway up as a wainscot, then cap it with a wood chair rail.
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2015
At the push of a button, the lifts open and close, floor-indicator lights blink, and chimes ping, as if an office tower staffed by Lilliputian drones were hidden behind the wainscot.
From Architectural Digest ● Nov. 4, 2014
The walls are covered with red silk damask and decorated with wainscot panelling.
From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014
They could hear the wood splintering under his teeth—a sound like a mouse in a shed wainscot at midnight.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The apartment entered, it was easy to discern the manner of men who had placed their mark upon its walls and wainscots.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
The wainscots were discoloured, the walls oozed, and part of the roof was broken.
From The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson
They scuttled inside the walls, and squeaked behind the wainscots, and seemed to hold carnival at the back of the oak panelling, often disturbing the girls at night with the noise.
From The Manor House School by Arthur A. Dixon
He has sat on the old chairs and sofas, and rubbed against the old wainscots, and leaned over the old balusters.
From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James
The rooms were large and embellished with carved wainscots and a profusion of chiseled woodwork, giving them an elaborate and expensive aspect.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
As if to underscore the radical turn these artists were making, the paintings are hung on an ornate plum-red wallpaper in a wainscoted gallery that harks back to the Grand Palais’s look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Inside, with its wainscoted white walls and dark oak floors, it’s as luxurious and well-appointed as a Four Seasons hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
The gray-on-gray wainscoted dining room is quite pleasant, and so, too, looked the outdoor patio on such a fine summertime’s evening.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023
The man famous for drafting Daniel Jones sat in what looked to be a barren, wainscoted attic with a big-screen TV set atop a plastic folding table.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2020
She led Desdemona down a long, wainscoted corridor, through a telephone operator’s office, and into another darker hallway.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
With a globe on his desk and roll-down maps on the wall of his elegantly wainscotted office, he could be found high in the iconic Chrysler Building in the heart of New York City.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2016
The walls of the various buildings were all wainscotted with alabaster slabs, upon which were representations of battles, sieges, triumphal processions, and similar events in the life of ancient Assyria.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
The side wall is low and wainscotted with carved panelling on which hang weapons, shields, and coats of mail.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
Next came a vestibule filled with servants, and thence followed the dining hall, wainscotted with sandal wood, inlaid with ivory.
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue
The first Hall, which forms the first Piece of the grand Apartment, is all wainscotted, and adorn’d with large Pictures, representing the chief Battles won by Prince Eugene.
Other impressive features found in the space included original teak plank flooring, an original marble staircase, and original picture moldings and wainscoting.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
At lunchtime on a recent weekday, businesspeople in suits sat at white-tablecloth tables in the main dining room, where the walls are wrapped in cherry-wood wainscoting and heavy blue curtains frame the windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Rather than discretely framed, his altered photograph is printed on a vinyl panel applied like wallpaper spreading 8 feet high and 19 feet wide, above the wainscoting of the gallery wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
And instead of recessed wall niches, she added shallow, surface-mounted bookshelves over the room’s wainscoting and wallpaper.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Now, chair rails, booths, wainscotting and window panes shine, restored to their original glory much like when Gus Carlson first built the hotel more than 100 years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
They fixed up the twenty-six-seat dining room, putting in wainscotting and a bar made from a farmhouse floor.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
They might be in the wainscotting, but they’re putting it out there.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2014
We are – and you brought us out of the wainscotting like so many freaky old bastards.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Every panel of the wainscotting seemed as hollow as its fellow—each projection as firmly secured.
From The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Newell Boothby
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