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Examples
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When they got the Kips Bay bedroom, they commissioned my metallic "boiserie" for two whole walls, plus a radiator cover.
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The arcades allow you to partake in the same activities as visitors on the Grand Tour did centuries ago — like them, you are meant to admire the chandeliers and the boiserie, stop for a snack, and even, despite these perilous economic times, maybe purchase a little something.
Paris Under Glass 2010
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The arcades allow you to partake in the same activities as visitors on the Grand Tour did centuries ago — like them, you are meant to admire the chandeliers and the boiserie, stop for a snack, and even, despite these perilous economic times, maybe purchase a little something.
Paris Under Glass 2010
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Princess Gloria, her mother, Beatrix, Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau, and I ate dinner in the new stainless-steel kitchen — not the big family dining room with assorted Wittelsbachs and Fürstenbergs staring down from the boiserie.
The Conversion of Gloria TNT Colacello, Bob 2006
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I was way in the background, hugging the silk of the walls, looking past a sea of fancy shoulders against the gray-green boiserie.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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I was way in the background, hugging the silk of the walls, looking past a sea of fancy shoulders against the gray-green boiserie.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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I was way in the background, hugging the silk of the walls, looking past a sea of fancy shoulders against the gray-green boiserie.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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The downstairs was all carved panelled walls, paint-ed boiserie, ornate marble mantels upon which rested eighteenth-century French bronzes, ormolu-mounted Chi-nese porcelain, among other priceless knick-knacks.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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The table beneath it was arranged like an altar, and the Ikon was let in to the carved boiserie of the wall.
The Price of Things Elinor Glyn 1903
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The door was opened at once, and she was taken through the quaint square hall into the master's own sitting-room, a richly sombre place of oak boiserie and old crimson silk.
The Price of Things Elinor Glyn 1903
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In gallery 525, museum-goers can view the intricate carved and painted boiserie, or wood-paneling, from the eighteenth-century Parisian residence known as the Hôtel de Varengeville.
In Defense of Kitsch | JSTOR Daily Catherine Halley 2020
mutandis26 commented on the word boiserie
* Function: noun
* Etymology: French, from bois wood, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German busk forest
* Date: 1832
: a panel or paneling of carved wood
September 1, 2009