Definition of "wainscotting" [wainscotting]

• Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls. (noun)
• Present participle of wainscot. (verb)

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• "If wainscotting is a thing I can have in my apartment."
• "Dark plain wainscotting, heavy furniture of simplest fashion, little windows well curtained; – all nothing to speak of; – all joined inexplicably to produce the impression of order, stability and repose, which seized upon Eleanor almost before she had time to observe details."
• "Wednesday, January 28, 2009 for arts sake worth hearing • very rarely does news make me cry, it usually makes me angry; the kind of angry that causes me to shatter dishes against the wainscotting, but not usually weep over the general state of affairs."