What's the difference between wainscot and wainscoting?

Wainscot


Definition:

  • (n.) Oaken timber or boarding.
  • (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
  • (v. t.) To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bruce Nauman's 2001 night-vision video of his cats chasing mice in his studio , and Juan Muñoz's 1991 Waiting for Jerry , an installation in which a brightly lit mouse hole cut into the wainscot is accompanied by the soundtrack of a Tom and Jerry cartoon, have surely been included out of a desire to allude, however obliquely, to Pussy Riot .
  • (2) Inside, it’s dusty, musty and oaky with cabinets of cigars, a smorgasboard of pipes and wainscoting festooned with coats of arms.

Wainscoting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wainscot
  • (n.) The act or occupation of covering or lining with boards in panel.
  • (n.) The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bruce Nauman's 2001 night-vision video of his cats chasing mice in his studio , and Juan Muñoz's 1991 Waiting for Jerry , an installation in which a brightly lit mouse hole cut into the wainscot is accompanied by the soundtrack of a Tom and Jerry cartoon, have surely been included out of a desire to allude, however obliquely, to Pussy Riot .
  • (2) Inside, it’s dusty, musty and oaky with cabinets of cigars, a smorgasboard of pipes and wainscoting festooned with coats of arms.

Words possibly related to "wainscot"

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