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wainscot(t)ing, vbl. n.|ˈweɪnskɒtɪŋ|
[f. wainscot v. + -ing1.]
The action or process of lining a room, its walls, etc. with wainscot; also concr., panelling of wainscot; also, wainscots collectively.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Lambris, a seeling, wanscotting. 1611Cotgr., Lambrissage, a wainscotting, or seeling; also, an embowing, or frettizing in wainscot. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 870 He..bestowed 100. markes vpon wainscotting of the Library there. 1682Burnet Life Hale 39 He laid by all his Collections.., and that they might not fall into ill hands, he hid them behind the Wainscotting of his Study. 1727De Foe Eng. Tradesm. xxii. (1841) I. 206 He must sink perhaps a third part, nay, half his stock, in painting and gilding, wainscoting and glazing. 1764Harmer Observ. iii. §8. 97 Their carved wainscottings of wood heightened with painting and gilting. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Doctor's Commons, An old quaint-looking apartment, with sunken windows, and black carved wainscotting. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede i, The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy upon doors and window frames and wainscoting. 1869‘Lewis Carroll’ Phantasmag. 37 But after twenty years or so The wainscotings begin to go. |