Verb (used with object) : a room wainscoted in oak. From Dictionary.com.
The bed-chambers are wainscotted with oaken panels. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Finally I surveyed the wainscotted walls hung with tapestry. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
It is wainscotted with coloured (knotted) wood, and carved in imitation of the ornamented dwelling of a Swiss family. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832] Reference
Now, straining at his arm, she was in the wainscotted hall before the stone mantelpiece that bore up the defiant knight. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
She resembled a fine old wainscotted painting with the face and features shining through a thick incrustation of copal varnish. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827] Reference
Then, staring before him, he went swiftly across the wainscotted hall with his lithe, noiseless step, escaping before that other voice could break the spell. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The next hall was smaller, and contained a dais, with a covered chair or throne upon it, and a series of straight-backed chairs lined up around the wainscotted walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
If the wall had been wainscotted, he might suppose such sounds to be caused by the gnawing of mice; but there was no likelihood of mice making their habitat in a thick stone wall. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
The rooms and entry are wainscotted, and have sash windows. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Children] Reference
It was a square room wainscotted in the Empire style with white wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
The ladies 'closet wainscotted with large squares of glass over painted paper. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
The ladies 'closet wainscotted with large squares of glass over painted paper. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference
At last Number 3 was floored, wainscotted, and glazed, and we had a week's repose. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
The great gallery is wainscotted with mirrors, not very large, but joined by frames. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
The great gallery is wainscotted with mirrors, not very large, but joined by frames. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference
It is wainscotted with oak, with plain chairs of the same, covered with dark blue damask. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
The hall was wainscotted; the walls were hung with shields and weapons, like the hall of Odysseus. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
In a panel of the darkly wainscotted and curiously gilded wall was placed a life-size portrait of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Castle Of The Shadows] Reference
It is wainscotted with plates of glass, floored with tortoise-shells, and is open to the four winds of Heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference
We went to the house of Mr. Argenson, which was almost wainscotted with looking-glasses, and covered with gold. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference
Still blindfolded, he was led by a circuitous route into a little wainscotted chamber lighted by a single bay-window. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
On either side of the hall were low-ceiled parlours wainscotted with dark wood, beams of which supported the ceilings. From Wordnik.com. [St George's Cross] Reference
In it the walls of hewn stone were wainscotted with cedar and overlaid with gold, and adorned with beautiful carvings. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
It seemed to cross the entire building, and was floored and wainscotted with the same brown varnished wood as the staircase. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Waters] Reference
In the flagged and wainscotted parlour of the village inn a child brought us bread and cheese and froth-crested mugs of beer. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
The hall was oak wainscotted all round, and the rooms that opened out of it were home-like and comfortable, as well as spacious. From Wordnik.com. [Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference
He conducted me at once up the wide oaken stair, then along the gallery, into a large wainscotted room, with a most capacious bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
The room is thirteen feet by twelve, and about eight feet high, wainscotted with oak, which is scrawled over with names and inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
He started up and listened; it came from the apartment of Colonel Talbot, which was divided from his own by a wainscotted partition, with a door of communication. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
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