wainscoting

For example, “If you're standing, it's the direction you should look to check out the wainscoting.”

He had only reached the dining room of the Leete house, which he was explaining had a white wainscoting when she interrupted him.

Limestone walls conduct more heat in and out than an equal thickness of glass, bricks, plastering, and wainscoting.

David experienced such a violent commotion of feeling that he was obliged to lean against the wainscoting.

It is the background for the furniture, and should be deeper than the dado or wainscoting.

Beam ceiling, wainscoting and floor were all of precisely the same shade and quality of dark oak.