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beadboard

beadboard noun: wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.

Noun

beadboard (usually uncountable, plural beadboards)

  1. (usually) Wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.
    • The aesthetic of the house is prim and country, with white beadboard knee walls around the first floor and pale flowered wallpaper in the Shaker-style kitchen.2009 July 3, Lisa A. Phillips, “A Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range”, in New York Times
  2. (usually) A construction material made from "beads" of expanded polystyrene compressed together.

Forms of beadboard

pluralbeadboards

Origin of beadboard

From bead + board.

Questions about beadboard

What does beadboard mean?
Beadboard means wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.
What part of speech is beadboard?
Beadboard is a noun.
What is the plural of beadboard?
The plural of beadboard is beadboards.

Words near beadboard in the dictionary

  1. bead-tree
  2. bead-trees
  3. Beadala
  4. beadbeater
  5. beadbeaters
  6. beadboard
  7. beadboards
  8. beadchip
  9. beadchips
  10. beaded
  11. beaded lacewing

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