beadboard

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noun

Wooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.

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Meanings

nounbeadboard (usually uncountable, plural beadboards)

plural beadboards

  1. uncountableusuallyWooden boards with a bead or ridge running their length used for paneling walls or ceilings.

    The aesthetic of the house is prim and country, with white beadboard knee walls around the first floor and pale flowered wallpaper in the Shaker-style kitchen.

    2009 July 3, Lisa A. Phillips, “A Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range”, in New York Times
  2. uncountableusuallyA construction material made from "beads" of expanded polystyrene compressed together.

Origin

From bead + board.

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APA

beadboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadboard

MLA

“beadboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadboard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beadboard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadboard.

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