boiserie

Etymology

French, from bois (“wood”).

Noun

boiserie (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,

     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.

Etymology

From bois + -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwazʁi/

Noun

boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim

Further reading

• “boiserie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).