boiserie

See also: Boiserie

English

Etymology

French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).

Noun

boiserie (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     Pot luck turned out to be an exquisite light lunch served at a round table in a room lined with rococo boiseries that had been removed wholesale from some grand Parisian town house and painted pale blue.

   • 2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Around 1960 the town house — 1081 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street — was pulled down to make way for 1080 Fifth Avenue, and the boiseries were removed.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: boazeria (pl) f

French

Etymology

From bois + -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwaz.ʁi/

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Noun

boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim

Further reading

• “boiserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.