| 单词 | wainscot |
| 释义 | wainscot (once / 8301 pages) n Wainscot is a type of wood paneling on a room's walls. Wainscot is often made from oak. This word's meaning is hard to figure out from looking at it, but the wains part is from a Dutch word that meant "wagon" and the scot part probably comes from a word that means "partition." Put them together, and you've got a word for wood paneling in a room: usually the kind that goes half-way up the wall. Originally, wainscot was a type of foreign oak imported to Britain for use in paneling, before it came to mean the paneling itself. WORD FAMILYwainscot: wainscots USAGE EXAMPLESWerner glances around: a trunk, a box of linens, the pale blue of the walls and the rich white of the wainscot. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See(2014) Install them floor to ceiling or only halfway up as a wainscot, then cap it with a wood chair rail. Time(Mar 12, 2015) Green-glazed faux-bamboo edged the upholstered walls, as did a matching fretwork wainscot, giving the bedroom the feeling of a pavilion. Architectural Digest(Feb 04, 2015) 1n wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room Syn|Hyper wainscoting, wainscotting panel sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something 2n panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall Syn|Hyper dado panel sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something |
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