wainscoting

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My favorite Slippery Jim quote: We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

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Quick take

Alternative spelling of wainscotting. [Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.]

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The clearest senses and uses of wainscoting gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative spelling of wainscotting. [Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.]

verb

Alternative spelling of wainscotting.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wainscoting.

noun

Alternative spelling of wainscotting. [Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.]

verb

Alternative spelling of wainscotting.

Example sentences

My favorite Slippery Jim quote: We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

All lathe-and-plaster walls, wainscoting of various designs depending on the money they had to spend.

I thought the fragments of faux brickwork and wainscoting you can see on the back wall were interesting.

So that includes carpentry, electric, plumbing, fine wood working if you want things like molding and wainscoting, and more.

Ha, they actually messed up a bit and I had to repair a bit of the wall / wainscoting.

Some areas have wainscoting, the knock down wall finish is now level 5.

I enjoy scurrying about in the wainscoting of HN, perhaps because of, not despite, its ferrocrete and stainless steel suboptimality?

That dado rail is part of wainscoting, it's the top rail.

Old architecture had craftsmen put a lot of time into things like smooth plaster walls, molding, wainscoting, herringbone floors, and decorative exteriors.

How else does the wainscoting feel today?

If it's around windows/doors it's casing, if it's going around the floor it's baseboard, if it's around the ceiling it's crown moulding, if it's halfway up the wall it's wainscoting.

> We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

Quote examples

Just when you have a nest all set up in the wainscoting, it's time to scurry along to the next: “We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

> " We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

> "We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.

The latter didn’t pad the stories with flowery language or add “texture” (things like describing the sofa someone is sitting in and the drapery or wainscoting, etc., that permeates a certain type of writing.