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English

Noun

wainscot (plural wainscots)

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• (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
  • ✤ […] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.¹
  • ✤ Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.**²
• Any of various noctuid moths.

Verb

wainscot (third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participlewainscoting or wainscotting, simple past and past participlewainscoted or wainscotted)

• To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Etymology

From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot or Middle Dutch waghenscote, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) (from Old Saxon wagan) + schot, meaning “partition, crossbar,” which is from or related to skiotan (“ to shoot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈweɪnskɒt/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈwɛnskət/, /ˈweɪnskət/³⁴

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Footnotes

1. 1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 3: ↩

2. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11: ↩

3. Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎${}^{[1]}$, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.412, page 128. ↩

4. Ross, Alan S. C. (1954), “Linguistic Class Indicators in Present-Day English”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen ‎${}^{[2]}$, volume 55, number 1, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41. ↩

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