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English
Pronunciation
Noun
wainscoting (usually uncountable, plural wainscotings)
- Alternative spelling of wainscotting
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 5–6:The floor, the wainscoting, were of mahogany—the walls were hung with the finest tapestry—and there were occasional spaces in which large mirrors had been set: but the mahogany was rough and discoloured, the tapestry rent and faded, and the mirrors either wholly gone, and their places filled by matting, or by fragments smashed and shivered in every direction.
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wainscoting
- Alternative spelling of wainscotting