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/ˈweɪnskɒt/ · noun
(architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls..
[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
Use wainscot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wainscot means (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls..
Common synonyms include panelling, wainscoting, wainscotting, dado.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.
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