wainscotings

Our aesthetic interest, accustomed to perking up before autonomous works of art that are usually framed and on canvas, often flags before the spallieras and the cassone panels that figure so prominently in this show, images originally intended to adorn the chests and wainscotings of bridal chambers.

An Unusual Renaissance Portrait 2008

The rooms throughout were low, and for the most part long and narrow, with large wide fireplaces and deep wainscotings.

The Way We Live Now 2004

I was ushered into an upper room, whose teak wainscotings, covered with Cufic and other inscriptions, large carpets, and ample Diwans, still showed a sort of ragged splendour.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

She gazed appreciatively at the high ceiling and the shining oak wainscotings of the wide corridor through which she was passing.

Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman Pauline Lester

More complex forms are the succession of repeated designs in mouldings and wainscotings (for example, the alternation of egg and dart), the series of windows in a wall, or of the columns of a Greek temple, or of the black and white keys of a piano.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

They reached her chamber, where a dim lamp faintly illumined the sombre magnificence, the sculptured wainscotings, and the heavy draperies.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In 1783 Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the court took up a brief residence here to assist at the aerostatic experiences of De Rosier, and in 1787, ceasing to be a royal residence, La Muette was offered for sale after first having been stripped of its precious wainscotings, its marbles and the artistic curiosities of all sorts with which it had been decorated.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

The Salle de Conseil is of the period of Charles X, and has some fairly imposing carved wainscotings showing in places the monograms of Marie

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets.

How the Poor Die 1946

Then Marcella crept away along the passages through which the wind whistled while the rats, hungry as everything else about Lashnagar, scuttled behind the wainscotings.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924