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beadboards

beadboards is the plural of beadboard.

Meaning of beadboard

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.

Questions about beadboards

What is beadboards the plural of?
Beadboards is the plural of beadboard.

Words near beadboards in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beadboards (page history and authors); beadboard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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