wainscot

v. cover walls of room with wooden panels, cover with decorative panels

n. wood panel or lining on the walls of room; design or covering that only decorates the bottom half of a wall

Panelling is a wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials.Panelling was developed in antiquity to make rooms in stone buildings more comfortable. The panels served to insulate the room from the cold stone. In more modern buildings, such panelling is often installed for decorative purposes. Panelling, such as wainscoting and boiserie in particular, may be extremely ornate and is particularly associated with 17th and 18th century interior design, Victorian architecture in Britain, and its international contemporaries.
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Noun
1. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest
(synonym) dado
(hypernym) panel
(part-holonym) wall
2. wooden panel used to line the walls of a room
(synonym) wainscoting, wainscotting
(hypernym) panel

(v. t.)
To line with boards or panelwork, or as if with panelwork; as, to wainscot a hall.
  

(n.)
Oaken timber or boarding.
  

(n.)
Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidae.
  

(n.)
A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
  

Synonyms and related words:
base, baseboard, basement, bush, bushing, ceil, chassis, dado, doubling, doublure, face, facing, feather, fill, filler, filling, foot, footing, foundation, frame, fur, inlay, inlayer, insole, interline, interlineation, keel, line, liner, lining, load, mopboard, nadir, pack, packing, pad, padding, shoemold, sole, stuff, stuffing, toe, wad, wadding