boiserie

French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).

boiserie (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     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:

     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.

From bois + -erie.

• IPA^(key): /bwaz.ʁi/

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boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim

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