wainscot.

a lining or paneling on an interior wall, especially its lower portion

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Words that belong together

• oak wainscot
• painted wainscot
• paneled wainscot

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The oak wainscot darkened the narrow room.

Scratches marked the painted wainscot beside the door.

Above the wainscot, the wallpaper had begun to peel.

Usage notes

Primary curation section: Architecture. Commonly wooden but not necessarily so. Wainscoting is the more familiar name for the paneling collectively. Plural: wainscots. Related noun: wainscoting; variant wainscotting.