Meanings
plural boiseries
- panelling; wood trim
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.
2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times1 more example
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.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
Origin
- Frenchboiserie
- Englishboiserie
From French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).
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Polish boazeria
- boazeriaTranslations
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