Verb (used with object) : a room wainscoted in oak. From Dictionary.com.
The walls all around were wainscoted with palisander. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Behind this shop was a wainscoted parlour, looking first into. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
George looked round the wainscoted parlour with some interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
A hardwood staircase leads to each floor's wainscoted landing. From Wordnik.com. [In Pictures: Embassy Row Elegance In Pictures: Embassy Row Elegance] Reference
The walls were wainscoted in oak and had capacious book shelves. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
It was a wainscoted room, but a white mildew stained the panels. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
Hands shot up around the large wainscoted bowl of a lecture hall. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Robinson: The Big Lie] Reference
The tavern-room is low-ceilinged and wainscoted with dark woodwork. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
High corniced ceilings, wainscoted walls, and shoulder-high chimney-pieces abound. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
The walls were wainscoted in vintage South American silk wood, now almost extinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
The hall and great parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic pilasters. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829] Reference
She moved into the little white-wainscoted hallway and he closed the door behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
The walls could be paneled in some rooms, wainscoted in others, and papered in others. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
His walls are not wainscoted, and there is about his house no umbrageous park nor verdant lawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
He crawled painfully up the wainscoted staircase and into the dark corridor leading to his bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
The doors are open, their rooms wainscoted, and long airy corridors give them a chance to exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Bedlam] Reference
It relaxed its jaws and let us out into a silent rotunda, wainscoted in marble and veneered with dust. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
At the same time the order was given for the part of the organ screen towards the nave to be wainscoted. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
It was wainscoted from floor to ceiling with dark oak, and had a little fireplace in one of the corners. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
The walls were wainscoted with walnut to the chair rail, and then there was warm cream plaster above that. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
It was a low wainscoted room, such as one sees in old houses: everything was in the most perfect neatness. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
The parlour was wainscoted, and communicated to strangers a magnetic and instinctive consciousness of rats and mice. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
My sitting-room is an old wainscoted chamber, with small panels, and set off with a miscellaneous array of furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
It was a plain, comfortable place, wainscoted about, with shelves and lockers in the whimsical copy of a vessel's cabin. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
He stuck his head out and looked both ways, down a wainscoted corridor that stretched about forty feet in either direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero]
The side door in the wainscoted and paneled wall closed behind Anya and Jeslek, leaving the other mages standing around the table. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
In the Guinness house in New York there is a little hallway wainscoted in white with a green trellis covering the wall space above. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
On the following day John Caldigate called at the bank, where the banker had a small wainscoted back-parlour appropriated to himself. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
Diamond file, tugged at the hem of her waist-cinching bouclé jacket, and strode down the wainscoted halls of Hallingby and Hallingby. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
It was wainscoted from floor to cornice in old black English oak, curiously and elaborately carved, and divided into long narrow panels. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
All the walls are wainscoted with oak, most exquisitely carved and polished, and the ceilings were painted by artists brought from Italy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
A wainscoted, dark, and generally uncarpeted staircase gives access to landings on which abut the outer doors of the "sets," or chambers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
The little parlour is wainscoted with the votive paintings -- a village Diploma Gallery -- of artists who have made the "Swan" their home. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The walls, like the hall, were wainscoted with old oak, but some beautiful water-colours and old china relieved their somewhat sombre hue. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
When we first moved here, he put in a new roof, wainscoted the walls of our bedroom, restored an antique cedar chest and a huge oak table. From Wordnik.com. [Knowing Jesse] Reference
Inside was a wainscoted rough-raftered taproom, fronds strewn on its clay floor, dimly lit by sconced candles and the flames on the hearth. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Darkly wainscoted and heavily furnished like most of the interior, smaller than average, that room must draw its name from rugs and drapes. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Both bathrooms have marble floors, skylights, wainscoted walls and luxurious fixtures. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Crafting For Children: Easy To Make Matching Game] Reference
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