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wainscoat

wainscoat is the obsolete form of wainscot.

Meaning of wainscot

Noun

wainscot (plural wainscots)

  1. An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
    • […] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.1598, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 3, scene 3
  2. Any of various noctuid moths.

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Forms of wainscoat

Noun
pluralwainscoats
Verb
third-person singular presentwainscoats
present participlewainscoating
past participlewainscoated
pastwainscoated

Questions about wainscoat

What is wainscoat the obsolete form of?
Wainscoat is the obsolete form of wainscot.

Words near wainscoat in the dictionary

  1. Wainright
  2. Wainrights
  3. wainrope
  4. wainropes
  5. wains
  6. wainscoat
  7. wainscoated
  8. wainscoating
  9. wainscoatings
  10. wainscoats
  11. wainscot

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