WAINSCOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wainscot mean? 

• WAINSCOT (noun)
  The noun WAINSCOT has 2 senses:

1. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

2. wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room

  Familiarity information: WAINSCOT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAINSCOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dado; wainscot

Hypernyms ("wainscot" is a kind of...):

panel (sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something)

Holonyms ("wainscot" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wainscot; wainscoting; wainscotting

Hypernyms ("wainscot" is a kind of...):

panel (sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something)

 Context examples 

There were the pencilled marks and memorandums on the wainscot by the window. He had done it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh! could the originals of the portraits against the wainscot, could the gentlemen in brown velvet and the ladies in blue satin have seen what was going on, have been conscious of such an overthrow of all order and neatness!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I stole down to my own mansion, entered it at night, and, leaving all that was dear to me behind, I crept like a rat behind the wainscot, to live out the remainder of my weary life in solitude and misery.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before that period, as I understand, the pews were only wainscot; and there is some reason to think that the linings and cushions of the pulpit and family seat were only purple cloth; but this is not quite certain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“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.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)