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wainscottings

wainscottings is the plural of wainscotting.

Meaning of wainscotting

Noun

wainscotting (usually uncountable, plural wainscottings)

  1. (usually) Wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
    • The giggles got louder and ran around the corners of the room like rats behind the wainscotting.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
    Synonyms:
    wainscot

Questions about wainscottings

What is wainscottings the plural of?
Wainscottings is the plural of wainscotting.

Words near wainscottings in the dictionary

  1. wainscotings
  2. wainscots
  3. Wainscott
  4. wainscotted
  5. wainscotting
  6. wainscottings
  7. Wainscotts
  8. wainsful
  9. waint
  10. Wainuiomata
  11. wainwright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wainscottings (page history and authors); wainscotting (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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