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WAINSCOTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wainscoted mean? 

WAINSCOTED (adjective)
  The adjective WAINSCOTED has 1 sense:

1. fitted or decorated with panels or wainscotingplay

  Familiarity information: WAINSCOTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WAINSCOTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting

Synonyms:

paneled; wainscoted

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)


 Context examples 


I went up to my bedroom to change my wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscoted apartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, I remember), and the sedate immensity of the four-post bedstead, and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed to unite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on any such daring youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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