boiserie

See also: Boiserie

English

Etymology

From French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).

Noun

boiserie (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     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^[1]:

     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.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: boazeria (pl) f

French

Etymology

From bois + -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwaz.ʁi/ ~ /bwɑz.ʁi/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boiserie.

Noun

boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. boiserie

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “boiserie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025