wainscot

English

Etymology

From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) + schot, believed to mean “partition”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪnskɒt/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛnskət/, /ˈweɪnskət/

Noun

wainscot (plural wainscots)

Wainscot

1. (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 3:

     […] 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.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11:

     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.

2. Any of various noctuid moths.

Synonyms

• panelling (uncountable)

Translations

an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of a room's walls

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: տախտակամած (taxtakamac)

• Bulgarian: ламперия f (lamperija)
• Dutch: lambrisering (nl) f
• Finnish: puolipaneeli
• Hungarian: lambéria (hu), faburkolat (hu)
• Icelandic: lágþiljur f pl, brjóstpanill m
• Irish: vuinsciú m
• Malagasy: peta-drindrina (mg)
• Middle English: waynscot
• Russian: пане́ль (ru) f (panélʹ)
• Tagalog: arimadilyo

Verb

wainscot (third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participle wainscotting, simple past and past participle wainscotted)

1. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Translations

to decorate a wall with a wainscot

• Arabic: خَشَّبَ (ar) (ḵaššaba)
• Bulgarian: облицовам с ламперия (oblicovam s lamperija)
• Dutch: lambriseren (nl)