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wainscot

noun as in lining

verb as in line

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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.

“Emma,” said she, “this paper is worse than I expected. Look! in places you see it is dreadfully dirty; and the wainscot is more yellow and forlorn than any thing I could have imagined.”

A wainscot cap is very similar in application to the chair rail.

They could hear the wood splintering under his teeth—a sound like a mouse in a shed wainscot at midnight.

Werner glances around: a trunk, a box of linens, the pale blue of the walls and the rich white of the wainscot.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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