wainscot
- n panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
- n wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
- The lobby, all marble pillars, garish chandeliers, and polished wainscoting, recalls an Elizabethan bordello; thankfully, though, the 375 newly renovated rooms are decorated in .
- During the day, repelled by too-strong light, they hide in a cozy "hutch" against the wainscoting.
- Renovations last year uncovered original marble floors and restored the wainscoting.