wainscotting
Meaning of wainscotting
- line (a room or wall) with wooden panelling.
the interior was to be wainscotted to a height of 4 feet
round the wainscotted walls ran narrow benches
Middle English: from Middle Low German wagenschot, apparently from wagen ‘wagon’ + schot, probably meaning ‘partition’. wainscot (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the early 19th century.
noun
wooden panelling that lines the lower part of the walls of a room.
Information about wainscotting
- The plural form of wainscotting is: wainscottings.
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Hyphenation of wainscotting
wain-scot-ting
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- wainscotting is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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