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panelling

English

Alternative forms

  • paneling

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæn?l??/

Noun

panelling (countable and uncountable, plural panellings)

  1. (British spelling) The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.

Translations

Verb

panelling

  1. present participle of panel

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wainscot

English

Etymology

From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot, assumed to be from wagen (wagon) + schot, believed to mean “partition”.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?we?nsk?t/

Noun

wainscot (plural wainscots)

  1. (architecture) An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
  2. Any of various noctuid moths.

Synonyms

  • panelling (uncountable)

Translations

Verb

wainscot (third-person singular simple present wainscots, present participle wainscotting, simple past and past participle wainscotted)

  1. To decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Translations

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