boiserie

French, from bois (“wood”).

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.

From bois + -erie.

• IPA^(key): /bwazʁi/

boiserie f (plural boiseries)

1. panelling; wood trim

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