(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.
Wainscotting
Definition:
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.