wain-scoting

Updated: May 29, 2025

Avoiding the ante-room, where no doubt waited pages, users, and attendants, Pare presently knocked at a small door, so hidden in the wain-scoting of the passage that only a habitue could have found it without strict search. It was at once opened, and the withered, motherly face of an old woman, with keen black eyes under a formal tight white cap, looked out. 'Eh!

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Chaplet of Pearls