wainscotn.

Brit.

/ˈweɪnskɒt/,

/ˈweɪnskət/, U.S.

/ˈweɪnˌskoʊt/,

/ˈweɪnˌskɑt/

Forms: α. Middle English waynescot, (Middle English -scote), Middle English–1600s waynscot, Middle English–1500s wayn(e)scotte, wayneskote, weynscot, (Middle English -scotte, 1500s -skot), Middle English–1600s waynscote, waynscott, (Middle English wenscote, wansqwatte, waneskott, waynskote, waynscowttez (plural), Scottish wanskoth), 1500s wayn(e)skott, wenskot(te, weinscot, wainescot, ( weanscott, wainscoate, wanskot(t, wenskett, Scottish wynscott), 1500s–1600s wa(i)nscote, wainskot, wanescot, (1500s -skot, 1600s -scott), 1500s–1700s wainscott, wanscot, (1600s vain-, Scottish vandscott, weanscot, waynskot, wayn-scote, waincot), 1600s–1800s wainscoat, (1700s wanscoate), 1500s– wainscot. β. Middle English northern vayneschote, wandschoth, Middle English weynshet, 1500s wa(y)neschot, weyneschot.

Etymology: < Middle Low German wagenschot (1389 in Schiller and Lübben), apparently < wagen carriage, wagon n. + schot (of uncertain meaning; compare bokenschot , modern Low German bökenschot , beechwood of superior quality). Compare 16th cent. Flemish waegheschot , waeghenschot (Kilian), West Flemish wageschot (De Bo), Dutch wagenschot , West Frisian wagenskot . The synonymous Flemish or Dutch wandschot (Kilian), which may be the source of some of the English forms, is either an etymologizing perversion of wagenschot or an independent formation on wand wall of a room. The English examples of the word are earlier than those given in the Middle Low German and Middle Dutch dictionaries, and the first element appears already in the earliest instances assimilated to the English wain n.¹The etymology as above stated does not clearly account for the meaning, and there have been attempts to explain the first element differently. Kilian (1598) identifies it with Flemish waeghe wave, taking it to refer to the undulation in the grain of the wood. Some modern scholars regard it as an alteration of Middle Dutch weeg wall (= Old Frisian wâch , Old English wáh , wough n.¹). These suggestions are however open to strong objection, and the probability is that the first element is really wagen, though the original meaning of the compound remains for the present obscure.

a. A superior quality of foreign oak imported from Russia, Germany, and Holland, chiefly used for fine panel-work; logs or planks of this oak; oak boarding for panel-work. Now only technical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > oak > superior quality of

wainscot1352

1352–3 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 153 Item solut. pro cc et dimid. de Waynscot empt. ad Lenne prec. de cent. xvs. xd. 1^l. 19^s. 7^d.

1391–2 Norwich Sacrist's Roll (MS.) Pro tabulis de Waynscot.

1404 in Royal & Hist. Lett. Henry IV (Rolls) I. 262 Nova navis cum tritico, braseo, farina..et lignis voaghenschot [? read waghen-] onustata.

a1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) 238 De chescun c du bord appelle ‘weynscotte’ obole.

1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 Also for wayneskote, vj d.

1483 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary, Oxford (Wood MS. D3) f. 260 De 4 s solut pro 4 asseribus vocat: weynshet.

1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 270 Chayres of waynscotte.

1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 290 Item, for xxiij burdis callit wanskoth, xvj s. viij d.

1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 117 A brode cheste of wayneskott.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx The Dutchemen bryng ouer Iron, Tymber, lether and Weynskot ready wrought.

1550 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 104/2 Exceptis..300 asseribus querneis lie waneschot nuncupatis.

1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dvij ^v Playing tables Flaunders making of wainscot the dosen xv.s.

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 1 A brother in Christ of his..kept his wainscot from waste, and his linnen from wearing; sufficeth he tombled his wife naked into the earth at high noone.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 173 The said marchants [of the Hans of Almaine] doe alleage, that the customers & bailifs of the town of Southhampton do compel them to pay..for ech hundreth of bowstaues & boords called Waghenscot, 2. d.]

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. S5 In the midst of the Synagogue they haue a round seat made of Wainscot.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 252 Seeing a wedge of Wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 108 An unlearned rout of contemptible People..who perhaps shall understand very little more than a hollow Pipe made of Tin or Wainscot.

1732 M. Green Grotto 161 As spiders Irish wainscot flee.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 482 The wood [of Quercus robur] is tolerably straight-grained and pretty free from knots, in many instances resembling the German species called wainscot.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 482 There is a species of oak..imported from Holland, known under the name of Dutch wainscot, though grown in Germany, whence it is floated down the Rhine for exportation.

†b. A piece or a board of wainscot oak. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > piece split off > of oak collectively

wainscot1388

knapple1496

clapboardc1520

French panel1556

rift1577

rift timber1775

1388 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 476 Parcels in the store-house..‘xxiii. barrell de tarre,..cc. waynscots’.

1396 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 123 Et in iij vayneschotes emp. pro j selour et j reredos..18 d.

1486–7 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. ccclxxvi Pro xvj waynscowttez ad vjd., viij s.

1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 448 To John de Garnathoo of the Company of the Easterlings, for 100 wainscots, 66s. 8d.

1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 515/2 Ilk geist, corball and waynescott..ane penny.

1641 S. Smith True Narr. Royall Fishings 4 Waynskots, Clapboards, Deale.

†c. Furniture made of wainscot. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally

wainscot1589

oak1829

casework1855

Chippendalism1880

Queen Anne1883

Colonial Revival1889

mission furniture1900

Bombay furniture1910

Chinese Chippendale1922

Danish modern1948

patio furniture1969

Populuxe1986

1589 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1912) II. ii. 144 I will my wainscott, as well chamberes and parleres, all wainscot beddes covered with wainescott.

1597 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 227 I give to my sonne..all the waynescott glasse painted clothes borders above the waynscott tables.

2. Panel-work of oak or other wood, used to line the walls of an apartment.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > wooden panelling

ceilingc1380

wainscot1548

wainscoting1580

wainscotage1677

boiserie1832

board-lining1879

1548 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 131 Item the weyneschot of the rode loft that was taken downe.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 159^v Chambers boorded after the maner of owre waynscotte.

1584 Copie of Let. conc. Erle of Leycester 171 The greedie Burglarer..is lesse patient of staye..when he..perceyueth onlie some partition of waneskot or the like, betwixt his fingers and the cofers or moneie bagges.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. T3^v In the Quire the whole history of S^t. Bennet is very curiously made in Wainscot.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. i. 79 This fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a shrunke pannell.

a1667 A. Cowley Of Greatness in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1906) 432 A convenient brick house, with decent Wainscot, and pretty Forest-work hangings.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 76 It was carv'd in such a manner, as to resemble a piece of wainscot.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 235. ¶2 A certain Person..who when he is pleased with any thing that is acted upon the Stage, expresses his Approbation by a loud Knock upon the Benches or the Wainscot.

1716 J. Addison Drummer i. 6 Like a Rat behind a Wainscot.

1730 W. Warren Collectanea in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 225 The Stair-case new lin'd with Deal wainscot painted.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. iii. 47 When we look upon the wainscot of a room where the pannels are painted of a different colour from the stiles and mouldings.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 218 I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iii. 48 The great oak-parlour, a long room panelled with well-varnished wainscot.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Mariana vi, in Poems 17 The mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shrieked.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 613 The Jacobite country gentlemen..burned their commissions signed by James, and hid their arms behind wainscots or in haystacks.

1875 M. E. Braddon Strange World II. i. 3 The wainscot was almost black with age.

†3. transferred and figurative. (Cf. 5b) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > shamelessness > thing

wainscot1588

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 33 His face is made of seasoned wainscot, and wil lie as fast as a dog can trot.

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. sig. E ^v Cedars to make good waynscot in the house of sincerity.

1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xxx. 362 Howsoeuer sometimes this kind of men haue faces of wainscotte.

1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King v. sig. K1^v This rascall Feares neither God nor man, has beene so beaten: Sufferance has made him wanscote.

a1659 F. Osborne Characters (1673) 640 How a few years hath changed Alabaster into Wainscot, and ruffled her Neck like a walking Buskin.

4. A book-name for several moths. (See 5c.)

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > wainscot

wainscot1819

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 399.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 419.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 87.

a. Made of wainscot. Of a room, lined with wainscot panelling.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > wood-panelled

ceiled1539

wainscot1575

wainscoted1602

1575 in Archaeologia 30 8 Item..ij waynscot chaires viij^e.

1575 in Archaeologia 30 14 Item a waynscott cheste, v^s.

1580 Archaeologia 64 357 To mak..tow dores on for the portall and on other for the lytle wayneschot chambre.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 229/2 Mensa vndulata vndatim crispa,..a wainscot table.

1593 M. Drayton Idea viii. sig. J^v Then lofty Pines were by ambition hewne, And men sea-monsters swamme the brackish flood, In waynscot tubs, to seeke out worlds vnknowne.

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 265 Through him my tender wainscot doore is deliuered from much assault and battrie.

1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iii. iii. 124 Look for one of my cheek teeth That dropt under the wanscote bed.

1702 Post Man 6–8 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) At Stanmore..is a fair House to be let, 4 Wainscot rooms on a floor, with a Kitchin, [etc.].

1711 in G. Lorimer Leaves fr. Bk. West Kirke (1885) vii. 64 Item,..a green pulpit cloath with silk fringes, six wanscot stools for the Collections.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxxi. 180 They all remained in the next parlour, a wainscot-partition only parting the two.

1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 85 Those sculptural vagaries, in which a human figure is often made..the support of a wainscot pulpit.

1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek i. 6 I am in the wainscoat parlour to-day.

1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 530 My room..was divided from the Manager's room by a wainscot partition.

1851 W. Laxton Builder's Price Bk. (ed. 28) 58 Wainscot floors.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5719 A wainscot sideboard.

1913 Blackwood's Mag. July 14/2 The room..had..a wainscot table, rosewood chairs [etc.].

†b. Resembling wainscot, hardened or coloured like old wainscot. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > other browns

wainscot1577

earth-coloured1722

honey-brown1774

snuff-coloured1787

snuffy1789

moorit1795

iron brown1798

umber1802

umbery1850

sienna-brown1853

oily-brown1861

seal-brown1881

tabac1881

glandaceous1885

cigar-brown1895

bead-brown1912

cocoa1942

toffee-brown1961

toffee1962

sludgy1975

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Kij^v Your waynscot face and brasen countenaunce.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. M1^v Audacious and wanscot, impudency on the other side returneth the greatest impediment in any thing to be obteined.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 64 But it is not the wainscott forhead of a Rudhuddibras, that can arreare such an huge opinion.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 If you marke it, mustard looks of the tanned wainscot hue, of such a withered wrinklefaced beldam as she was, that was altred thereinto.

a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iv. sig. E4^v How does thy Mistriss that sits in a Wainscot Gown, like a Citizens Lure to draw in Customers?

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 469 They are Wainscot Faces compair'd with white men.

a1745 J. Swift Dick, a Maggot 11 'Tis beyond the pow'r of meal The gypsey visage to conceal; For, as he shakes his wainscot chops, Down ev'ry mealy atom drops.

c. In book-names of certain moths: see 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > belonging to family Noctuidae > of wainscot

wainscot1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 187.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. Simple attributive.

wainscot board n.

ΚΠ

1420 in For. Acc. 3 Henry VI G/2 In diuersis peciis maeremii Waynescotbordes.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises xxiv. vii. f. 321 Another square boxe of thinne wainscot boord.

wainscot colour adj.

ΚΠ

1737 Compl. Family-piece (ed. 2) iii. 525 Most Rooms are now Painted Wainscot Colour.

wainscot log n.

ΚΠ

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 249 Wainscot Logs, 8 inches square or upwards, are charged by the load of 50 cubic feet.

wainscot oak n.

ΚΠ

1832 Useful & Ornamental Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) 130 That which is brought down the Rhine from the forests of southern Germany, and imported into this country by the name of wainscoat oak.

wainscot rafter n.

ΚΠ

c1560 Aberd. Reg. (MS.) XXVI. (Jam.) Wynscott rauchter.

wainscot timber n.

ΚΠ

1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees xvi. 96 Riga wainscot timber passes through the process of bracking prior to its being shipped.

wainscot work n.

ΚΠ

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 198/2 Wainscot or seeling worke.

1609 Acc. Balliol Coll., Oxford (MS.) Item, for 2 seates, and wainscott worke, in the librarie, 5 li.

C2.

wainscot chair n. a panel-back chair (see panel n.¹ Compounds 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type

wainscot chair1663

Windsor chair1724

slat-back1891

comb-back1901

Windsor1901

wheel-back1902

hoop-back1905

ladder-back1908

spoon-back1909

Mendlesham chair1935

1663 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage Inventories Mid-Essex (1950) 95 One Wainsscott Chair.

1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 145 The wainscot chairs which figure in the early records were doubtless those made up—back, seats, and all—of wood, the wood being most invariably oak.

1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 146 Wainscot chairs were quite common in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century.

1925 J. Penderel-Brodhurst & E. J. Layton Gloss. Eng. Furnit. 119 Panel-back or wainscot chair, a cumbrous high-seated oak chair with heavy legs, stretchers, and high wainscotted back, in use in Tudor and Jacobean times.

1978 P. Van Greenaway Man called Scavener i. 11 A long passage lined with Pembrokes, a Wainscot chair, a rare Caquetoire.

C3. Parasynthetic.

† wainscot-faced adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

flatc1400

hardc1400

low-cheeredc1400

large?a1425

ruscledc1440

well-visagedc1440

platter-faced1533

well-faced1534

full-faced1543

fair-faced1553

bright-faceda1560

crab-faced1563

crab-snouted1563

crab-tree-faced1563

long-visaged1584

owlya1586

wainscot-faced1588

flaberkin1592

rough-hewn1593

angel-faced1594

round-faced1594

crab-favoured1596

rugged1596

weasel-faced1596

rough-faced1598

half-faced1600

chitty1601

lenten-faced1604

broad-faced1607

dog-faced1607

weaselled-faced1607

wry-faced1607

maid-faced1610

warp-faced1611

ill-faceda1616

lean-faceda1616

old-faceda1616

moon-faced1619

monkey-faced1620

chitty-face1622

chitty-faceda1627

lean-chapt1629

antic-faced1635

bloat-faced1638

bacon-facea1640

blue-faced1640

hatchet-faced1648

grave1650

lean-jawed1679

smock-faced1684

lean-visaged1686

flaber1687

baby-faced1692

splatter-faced1707

chubby1722

puggy1722

block-faced1751

haggard-looking1756

long-faced1762

haggardly1763

fresh-faced1766

dough-faced1773

pudding-faced1777

baby-featured1780

fat-faced1782

haggard1787

weazen-face1794

keen1798

ferret-like1801

lean-cheeked1812

mulberry-faced1812

open-faced1813

open-countenanced1819

chiselled1821

hatchety1821

misfeatured1822

terse1824

weazen-faced1824

mahogany-faced1825

clock-faced1827

sharp1832

sensual1833

beef-faced1838

weaselly1838

ferret-faced1840

sensuous1843

rat-faced1844

recedent1849

neat-faced1850

cherubimical1854

pinch-faced1859

cherubic1860

frownya1861

receding1866

weak1882

misfeaturing1885

platopic1885

platyopic1885

pro-opic1885

wind-splitting1890

falcon-face1891

blunt-featured1916

bun-faced1927

fish-faced1963

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 33 Our impudent, shamelesse, and wainscote faced bishops.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 27 But now mee thinkes I spie againe a Sunn burnt wainscot-fac'd Satyre.

C4. Similative.

wainscot joined adj.

ΚΠ

1554 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 164 viij targettes of tree shelboard of waynscot ioyned fair worke for the said maskers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wainscotv.

Brit.

/ˈweɪnskɒt/,

/ˈweɪnskət/, U.S.

/ˈweɪnˌskoʊt/,

/ˈweɪnˌskɑt/

Forms: Inflected wainscot(t)ed, -ing. Forms: see the noun.

Etymology: < wainscot n. Compare Flemish †waeghenschotten (Kilian).

a. transitive. To line (a wall, roof, etc.) with panel-work of wood.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with woodwork

ceila1400

sark1464

wainscot1570

impanel1577

panel1633

pane1708

rough-board1755

clapboard1840

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiv^v/1 To Waynscotte, contabulare.

1599 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 415 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For waynscotting the roofes of his chamber, xxs.

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xix. 149 To mend this inconvenience the English did wainscot those walls with oak or other boards.

1676 J. Glanvill Ess. vii. 3 He led me into an handsome square Chamber wainscotted with Cedar.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 105 (heading) Of Wainscoting Rooms.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 106 In Wainscoting of Rooms there is, for the most part, but two heights of Pannels used; unless the Room to be Wainscoted be above ten foot high.

1730 W. Warren in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 232 The Treasury..is wainscotted with Deal.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vi. 119 This apartment..was now beautifully wainscotted with dark foreign wood.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iii. iii. 31 It was a large room..wainscoted with pine.

1883 G. Moore Mod. Lover xiv [The room] was wainscotted in light oak.

in figurative context.a1704 T. Brown Quakers Grace in Wks. (1720) I. 131 That we..may live to be saw'd out into Deal-Boards, to wainscoat thy New Jerusalem.

b. To grain in imitation of oak.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > grain > in imitation of oak

wainscot1836

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 25 The house..was fresh painted and papered from top to bottom: the paint inside was all wainscoted.

2. transferred. To line (the walls of an apartment) with marble, tiles, or the like; to panel (a wall) with mirrors or pictures.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials

pitcheOE

lute1495

loam1600

bitume1609

wainscota1631

mud1632

putty1719

compo1809

belute1837

smear1839

puddle1844

plash1864

canvas1865

cement1886

TP1962

toilet-paper1964

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 57 The Scriptures are as a room wainscotted with looking-glass, we see all at once.

a1652 I. Jones in B. Allsopp & R. A. Sayce Inigo Jones on Palladio (1970) II. iv. 82 To wendscot w^th Rich Stoones.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 139 Witness those Chambers..wainscotted with great Looking Glasses and rich guilding.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 385 The winter Apartment was wainscoted with inlaid work of Mother of Pearl.

1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. i. 5 The east side of it within is wainscotted with jasper and beautiful marbles.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 503 [Johnson:] The ladies' closet wainscotted with large squares of glass over painted paper.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xviii. 151 But enough..of Portraits; though, in truth, the walls are wainscotted with them.

Derivatives

ˈwainscoted adj. (also ˈwainscotted) in quot. 1602 transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > wood-panelled

ceiled1539

wainscot1575

wainscoted1602

1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition I This lost Companion [a quack], hauing a Foxes Head and an whorish and wainscotted Face.

1605 P. Erondelle French Garden N 2 b God grant me alwaies the key of the fieldes, I would like it better, then to be in bondage in the fayrest wainscotted or tapistred Chamber.

1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 40 Solomon and others..did build their Magnificent Houses,..and Wain-scotted Rooms therewith [Cedar].

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. viii. 98 The apartment of Colonel Talbot..was divided from his own by a wainscotted partition.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 The little wainscotted back parlour.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xiii. 153 They were taken..into a wainscoted parlour.

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单词	wainscot
释义	wainscotn. Brit. /ˈweɪnskɒt/, /ˈweɪnskət/, U.S. /ˈweɪnˌskoʊt/, /ˈweɪnˌskɑt/ Forms: α. Middle English waynescot, (Middle English -scote), Middle English–1600s waynscot, Middle English–1500s wayn(e)scotte, wayneskote, weynscot, (Middle English -scotte, 1500s -skot), Middle English–1600s waynscote, waynscott, (Middle English wenscote, wansqwatte, waneskott, waynskote, waynscowttez (plural), Scottish wanskoth), 1500s wayn(e)skott, wenskot(te, weinscot, wainescot, ( weanscott, wainscoate, wanskot(t, wenskett, Scottish wynscott), 1500s–1600s wa(i)nscote, wainskot, wanescot, (1500s -skot, 1600s -scott), 1500s–1700s wainscott, wanscot, (1600s vain-, Scottish vandscott, weanscot, waynskot, wayn-scote, waincot), 1600s–1800s wainscoat, (1700s wanscoate), 1500s– wainscot. β. Middle English northern vayneschote, wandschoth, Middle English weynshet, 1500s wa(y)neschot, weyneschot. Etymology: < Middle Low German wagenschot (1389 in Schiller and Lübben), apparently < wagen carriage, wagon n. + schot (of uncertain meaning; compare bokenschot , modern Low German bökenschot , beechwood of superior quality). Compare 16th cent. Flemish waegheschot , waeghenschot (Kilian), West Flemish wageschot (De Bo), Dutch wagenschot , West Frisian wagenskot . The synonymous Flemish or Dutch wandschot (Kilian), which may be the source of some of the English forms, is either an etymologizing perversion of wagenschot or an independent formation on wand wall of a room. The English examples of the word are earlier than those given in the Middle Low German and Middle Dutch dictionaries, and the first element appears already in the earliest instances assimilated to the English wain n.¹The etymology as above stated does not clearly account for the meaning, and there have been attempts to explain the first element differently. Kilian (1598) identifies it with Flemish waeghe wave, taking it to refer to the undulation in the grain of the wood. Some modern scholars regard it as an alteration of Middle Dutch weeg wall (= Old Frisian wâch , Old English wáh , wough n.¹). These suggestions are however open to strong objection, and the probability is that the first element is really wagen, though the original meaning of the compound remains for the present obscure. 1. a. A superior quality of foreign oak imported from Russia, Germany, and Holland, chiefly used for fine panel-work; logs or planks of this oak; oak boarding for panel-work. Now only technical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > oak > superior quality of wainscot1352 1352–3 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 153 Item solut. pro cc et dimid. de Waynscot empt. ad Lenne prec. de cent. xvs. xd. 1^l. 19^s. 7^d. 1391–2 Norwich Sacrist's Roll (MS.) Pro tabulis de Waynscot. 1404 in Royal & Hist. Lett. Henry IV (Rolls) I. 262 Nova navis cum tritico, braseo, farina..et lignis voaghenschot [? read waghen-] onustata. a1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) 238 De chescun c du bord appelle ‘weynscotte’ obole. 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 Also for wayneskote, vj d. 1483 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary, Oxford (Wood MS. D3) f. 260 De 4 s solut pro 4 asseribus vocat: weynshet. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 270 Chayres of waynscotte. 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 290 Item, for xxiij burdis callit wanskoth, xvj s. viij d. 1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 117 A brode cheste of wayneskott. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx The Dutchemen bryng ouer Iron, Tymber, lether and Weynskot ready wrought. 1550 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 104/2 Exceptis..300 asseribus querneis lie waneschot nuncupatis. 1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Dvij ^v Playing tables Flaunders making of wainscot the dosen xv.s. ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat 1 A brother in Christ of his..kept his wainscot from waste, and his linnen from wearing; sufficeth he tombled his wife naked into the earth at high noone. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 173 The said marchants [of the Hans of Almaine] doe alleage, that the customers & bailifs of the town of Southhampton do compel them to pay..for ech hundreth of bowstaues & boords called Waghenscot, 2. d.] 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. S5 In the midst of the Synagogue they haue a round seat made of Wainscot. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 252 Seeing a wedge of Wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 108 An unlearned rout of contemptible People..who perhaps shall understand very little more than a hollow Pipe made of Tin or Wainscot. 1732 M. Green Grotto 161 As spiders Irish wainscot flee. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 482 The wood [of Quercus robur] is tolerably straight-grained and pretty free from knots, in many instances resembling the German species called wainscot. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 482 There is a species of oak..imported from Holland, known under the name of Dutch wainscot, though grown in Germany, whence it is floated down the Rhine for exportation. †b. A piece or a board of wainscot oak. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > piece split off > of oak collectively wainscot1388 knapple1496 clapboardc1520 French panel1556 rift1577 rift timber1775 1388 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 476 Parcels in the store-house..‘xxiii. barrell de tarre,..cc. waynscots’. 1396 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 123 Et in iij vayneschotes emp. pro j selour et j reredos..18 d. 1486–7 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. ccclxxvi Pro xvj waynscowttez ad vjd., viij s. 1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 448 To John de Garnathoo of the Company of the Easterlings, for 100 wainscots, 66s. 8d. 1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 515/2 Ilk geist, corball and waynescott..ane penny. 1641 S. Smith True Narr. Royall Fishings 4 Waynskots, Clapboards, Deale. †c. Furniture made of wainscot. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally wainscot1589 oak1829 casework1855 Chippendalism1880 Queen Anne1883 Colonial Revival1889 mission furniture1900 Bombay furniture1910 Chinese Chippendale1922 Danish modern1948 patio furniture1969 Populuxe1986 1589 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1912) II. ii. 144 I will my wainscott, as well chamberes and parleres, all wainscot beddes covered with wainescott. 1597 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 227 I give to my sonne..all the waynescott glasse painted clothes borders above the waynscott tables. 2. Panel-work of oak or other wood, used to line the walls of an apartment. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > wooden panelling ceilingc1380 wainscot1548 wainscoting1580 wainscotage1677 boiserie1832 board-lining1879 1548 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 131 Item the weyneschot of the rode loft that was taken downe. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 159^v Chambers boorded after the maner of owre waynscotte. 1584 Copie of Let. conc. Erle of Leycester 171 The greedie Burglarer..is lesse patient of staye..when he..perceyueth onlie some partition of waneskot or the like, betwixt his fingers and the cofers or moneie bagges. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. T3^v In the Quire the whole history of S^t. Bennet is very curiously made in Wainscot. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. i. 79 This fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a shrunke pannell. View more context for this quotation a1667 A. Cowley Of Greatness in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1906) 432 A convenient brick house, with decent Wainscot, and pretty Forest-work hangings. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 76 It was carv'd in such a manner, as to resemble a piece of wainscot. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 235. ¶2 A certain Person..who when he is pleased with any thing that is acted upon the Stage, expresses his Approbation by a loud Knock upon the Benches or the Wainscot. 1716 J. Addison Drummer i. 6 Like a Rat behind a Wainscot. 1730 W. Warren Collectanea in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 225 The Stair-case new lin'd with Deal wainscot painted. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. iii. 47 When we look upon the wainscot of a room where the pannels are painted of a different colour from the stiles and mouldings. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 218 I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iii. 48 The great oak-parlour, a long room panelled with well-varnished wainscot. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Mariana vi, in Poems 17 The mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shrieked. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 613 The Jacobite country gentlemen..burned their commissions signed by James, and hid their arms behind wainscots or in haystacks. 1875 M. E. Braddon Strange World II. i. 3 The wainscot was almost black with age. †3. transferred and figurative. (Cf. 5b) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > shamelessness > thing wainscot1588 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 33 His face is made of seasoned wainscot, and wil lie as fast as a dog can trot. 1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. sig. E ^v Cedars to make good waynscot in the house of sincerity. 1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xxx. 362 Howsoeuer sometimes this kind of men haue faces of wainscotte. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King v. sig. K1^v This rascall Feares neither God nor man, has beene so beaten: Sufferance has made him wanscote. a1659 F. Osborne Characters (1673) 640 How a few years hath changed Alabaster into Wainscot, and ruffled her Neck like a walking Buskin. 4. A book-name for several moths. (See 5c.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > wainscot wainscot1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 399. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 419. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 87. 5. a. Made of wainscot. Of a room, lined with wainscot panelling. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > wood-panelled ceiled1539 wainscot1575 wainscoted1602 1575 in Archaeologia 30 8 Item..ij waynscot chaires viij^e. 1575 in Archaeologia 30 14 Item a waynscott cheste, v^s. 1580 Archaeologia 64 357 To mak..tow dores on for the portall and on other for the lytle wayneschot chambre. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 229/2 Mensa vndulata vndatim crispa,..a wainscot table. 1593 M. Drayton Idea viii. sig. J^v Then lofty Pines were by ambition hewne, And men sea-monsters swamme the brackish flood, In waynscot tubs, to seeke out worlds vnknowne. 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 265 Through him my tender wainscot doore is deliuered from much assault and battrie. 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iii. iii. 124 Look for one of my cheek teeth That dropt under the wanscote bed. 1702 Post Man 6–8 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) At Stanmore..is a fair House to be let, 4 Wainscot rooms on a floor, with a Kitchin, [etc.]. 1711 in G. Lorimer Leaves fr. Bk. West Kirke (1885) vii. 64 Item,..a green pulpit cloath with silk fringes, six wanscot stools for the Collections. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxxi. 180 They all remained in the next parlour, a wainscot-partition only parting the two. 1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 85 Those sculptural vagaries, in which a human figure is often made..the support of a wainscot pulpit. 1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek i. 6 I am in the wainscoat parlour to-day. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 530 My room..was divided from the Manager's room by a wainscot partition. 1851 W. Laxton Builder's Price Bk. (ed. 28) 58 Wainscot floors. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5719 A wainscot sideboard. 1913 Blackwood's Mag. July 14/2 The room..had..a wainscot table, rosewood chairs [etc.]. †b. Resembling wainscot, hardened or coloured like old wainscot. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > other browns wainscot1577 earth-coloured1722 honey-brown1774 snuff-coloured1787 snuffy1789 moorit1795 iron brown1798 umber1802 umbery1850 sienna-brown1853 oily-brown1861 seal-brown1881 tabac1881 glandaceous1885 cigar-brown1895 bead-brown1912 cocoa1942 toffee-brown1961 toffee1962 sludgy1975 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Kij^v Your waynscot face and brasen countenaunce. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. M1^v Audacious and wanscot, impudency on the other side returneth the greatest impediment in any thing to be obteined. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 64 But it is not the wainscott forhead of a Rudhuddibras, that can arreare such an huge opinion. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 If you marke it, mustard looks of the tanned wainscot hue, of such a withered wrinklefaced beldam as she was, that was altred thereinto. a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iv. sig. E4^v How does thy Mistriss that sits in a Wainscot Gown, like a Citizens Lure to draw in Customers? 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 469 They are Wainscot Faces compair'd with white men. a1745 J. Swift Dick, a Maggot 11 'Tis beyond the pow'r of meal The gypsey visage to conceal; For, as he shakes his wainscot chops, Down ev'ry mealy atom drops. c. In book-names of certain moths: see 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > belonging to family Noctuidae > of wainscot wainscot1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 187. Compounds General attributive. C1. Simple attributive. wainscot board n. ΚΠ 1420 in For. Acc. 3 Henry VI G/2 In diuersis peciis maeremii Waynescotbordes. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises xxiv. vii. f. 321 Another square boxe of thinne wainscot boord. wainscot colour adj. ΚΠ 1737 Compl. Family-piece (ed. 2) iii. 525 Most Rooms are now Painted Wainscot Colour. wainscot log n. ΚΠ 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 249 Wainscot Logs, 8 inches square or upwards, are charged by the load of 50 cubic feet. wainscot oak n. ΚΠ 1832 Useful & Ornamental Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) 130 That which is brought down the Rhine from the forests of southern Germany, and imported into this country by the name of wainscoat oak. wainscot rafter n. ΚΠ c1560 Aberd. Reg. (MS.) XXVI. (Jam.) Wynscott rauchter. wainscot timber n. ΚΠ 1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees xvi. 96 Riga wainscot timber passes through the process of bracking prior to its being shipped. wainscot work n. ΚΠ 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 198/2 Wainscot or seeling worke. 1609 Acc. Balliol Coll., Oxford (MS.) Item, for 2 seates, and wainscott worke, in the librarie, 5 li. C2. wainscot chair n. a panel-back chair (see panel n.¹ Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 1663 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage Inventories Mid-Essex (1950) 95 One Wainsscott Chair. 1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 145 The wainscot chairs which figure in the early records were doubtless those made up—back, seats, and all—of wood, the wood being most invariably oak. 1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 146 Wainscot chairs were quite common in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century. 1925 J. Penderel-Brodhurst & E. J. Layton Gloss. Eng. Furnit. 119 Panel-back or wainscot chair, a cumbrous high-seated oak chair with heavy legs, stretchers, and high wainscotted back, in use in Tudor and Jacobean times. 1978 P. Van Greenaway Man called Scavener i. 11 A long passage lined with Pembrokes, a Wainscot chair, a rare Caquetoire. C3. Parasynthetic. † wainscot-faced adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 33 Our impudent, shamelesse, and wainscote faced bishops. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 27 But now mee thinkes I spie againe a Sunn burnt wainscot-fac'd Satyre. C4. Similative. wainscot joined adj. ΚΠ 1554 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 164 viij targettes of tree shelboard of waynscot ioyned fair worke for the said maskers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wainscotv. Brit. /ˈweɪnskɒt/, /ˈweɪnskət/, U.S. /ˈweɪnˌskoʊt/, /ˈweɪnˌskɑt/ Forms: Inflected wainscot(t)ed, -ing. Forms: see the noun. Etymology: < wainscot n. Compare Flemish †waeghenschotten (Kilian). 1. a. transitive. To line (a wall, roof, etc.) with panel-work of wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with woodwork ceila1400 sark1464 wainscot1570 impanel1577 panel1633 pane1708 rough-board1755 clapboard1840 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiv^v/1 To Waynscotte, contabulare. 1599 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 415 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For waynscotting the roofes of his chamber, xxs. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xix. 149 To mend this inconvenience the English did wainscot those walls with oak or other boards. 1676 J. Glanvill Ess. vii. 3 He led me into an handsome square Chamber wainscotted with Cedar. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 105 (heading) Of Wainscoting Rooms. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 106 In Wainscoting of Rooms there is, for the most part, but two heights of Pannels used; unless the Room to be Wainscoted be above ten foot high. 1730 W. Warren in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 232 The Treasury..is wainscotted with Deal. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vi. 119 This apartment..was now beautifully wainscotted with dark foreign wood. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iii. iii. 31 It was a large room..wainscoted with pine. 1883 G. Moore Mod. Lover xiv [The room] was wainscotted in light oak. in figurative context.a1704 T. Brown Quakers Grace in Wks. (1720) I. 131 That we..may live to be saw'd out into Deal-Boards, to wainscoat thy New Jerusalem. b. To grain in imitation of oak. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > grain > in imitation of oak wainscot1836 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 25 The house..was fresh painted and papered from top to bottom: the paint inside was all wainscoted. 2. transferred. To line (the walls of an apartment) with marble, tiles, or the like; to panel (a wall) with mirrors or pictures. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials pitcheOE lute1495 loam1600 bitume1609 wainscota1631 mud1632 putty1719 compo1809 belute1837 smear1839 puddle1844 plash1864 canvas1865 cement1886 TP1962 toilet-paper1964 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 57 The Scriptures are as a room wainscotted with looking-glass, we see all at once. a1652 I. Jones in B. Allsopp & R. A. Sayce Inigo Jones on Palladio (1970) II. iv. 82 To wendscot w^th Rich Stoones. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 139 Witness those Chambers..wainscotted with great Looking Glasses and rich guilding. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 385 The winter Apartment was wainscoted with inlaid work of Mother of Pearl. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. i. 5 The east side of it within is wainscotted with jasper and beautiful marbles. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 503 [Johnson:] The ladies' closet wainscotted with large squares of glass over painted paper. 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xviii. 151 But enough..of Portraits; though, in truth, the walls are wainscotted with them. Derivatives ˈwainscoted adj. (also ˈwainscotted) in quot. 1602 transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > wood-panelled ceiled1539 wainscot1575 wainscoted1602 1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition I This lost Companion [a quack], hauing a Foxes Head and an whorish and wainscotted Face. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden N 2 b God grant me alwaies the key of the fieldes, I would like it better, then to be in bondage in the fayrest wainscotted or tapistred Chamber. 1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 40 Solomon and others..did build their Magnificent Houses,..and Wain-scotted Rooms therewith [Cedar]. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. viii. 98 The apartment of Colonel Talbot..was divided from his own by a wainscotted partition. View more context for this quotation 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 The little wainscotted back parlour. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xiii. 153 They were taken..into a wainscoted parlour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1352v.1570
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