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boiserie

boiserie noun: panelling; wood trim.

Noun

boiserie (plural boiseries)

  1. panelling; wood trim
    • Pot luck turned out to be an exquisite light lunch served at a round table in a room lined with rococo boiseries that had been removed wholesale from some grand Parisian town house and painted pale blue.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
    • Around 1960 the town house — 1081 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street — was pulled down to make way for 1080 Fifth Avenue, and the boiseries were removed.2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times

Forms of boiserie

pluralboiseries

Origin of boiserie

From French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).

Questions about boiserie

What does boiserie mean?
Boiserie means panelling; wood trim.
What part of speech is boiserie?
Boiserie is a noun.
What is the plural of boiserie?
The plural of boiserie is boiseries.

Words near boiserie in the dictionary

  1. Boise
  2. Boise City
  3. Boise County
  4. Boisean
  5. Boiseans
  6. boiserie
  7. boiseries
  8. Boises
  9. Boisleux-au-Mont
  10. boisman
  11. boismen

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