wainscot
WAINSCOT
s. tabulamentum (Frontinus); *tabulatio (parietum); abaci (panels). ☞ The walls of Roman apartments were usually adorned with paintings or mosaic work (pictura de musivo; opus musivum); sometimes with slabs of marble (crustae) or black glass to set as to resemble mirrors (Plin. H.N. 35 36).
s. tabulamentum (Frontinus); *tabulatio (parietum); abaci (panels). ☞ The walls of Roman apartments were usually adorned with paintings or mosaic work (pictura de musivo; opus musivum); sometimes with slabs of marble (crustae) or black glass to set as to resemble mirrors (Plin. H.N. 35 36).
v. parietes tesseris operire (after Plin. 36 6 7).
wainscot: no exact equivalent:
1. perh. tăbŭlāmentum, Front., or tăbŭlātio, Caes.: Vitr. (these, however, are rather used of flooring).
2. păries, ĕtis, m., (partition wall).
3. ăbaci (panels). The Roman rooms were usually adorned with paintings or mosaic work, or slabs of marble or mirrors: cf. Plin. 35, 12, 45. See Smith's Ant. p. 719.
1. perh. tăbŭlāmentum, Front., or tăbŭlātio, Caes.: Vitr. (these, however, are rather used of flooring).
2. păries, ĕtis, m., (partition wall).
3. ăbaci (panels). The Roman rooms were usually adorned with paintings or mosaic work, or slabs of marble or mirrors: cf. Plin. 35, 12, 45. See Smith's Ant. p. 719.