wainscot

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wainscot /ˈweɪnskɒt/

▶noun

• 1 an area of wooden panelling on the lower part of the walls of a room.

• 2 historical fine imported oak, as used for such panelling.

• 3 a drab yellowish to brown-coloured moth. [Mythimna and other genera: several species.]

– derivatives
wainscoted (also wainscotted) adjective,
wainscoting (also wainscotting) noun.

– origin ME: from Mid. Low Ger. wagenschot, appar. from wagen ‘wagon’ + schot, prob. meaning ‘partition’.