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Panelling   Listen
noun
paneling  n.  
1.
The act or process of forming in panels or decorating with panels. (Written also panelling)
2.
The panels which decorate the walls of a room.


verb
Panel  v. t.  (past & past part. paneled or panelled; pres. part. paneling or panelling)  To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.
Paneled back (Arch.), the paneled work covering the window back. See Window back.





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"Panelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... delightful tea-room is this! With its woodwork, its panelling, and its little window lattices, all in beautiful enamelled white. That is not a tea-room! I'm 'sprised at you. That is a laundry. A laundry? Shades of Hop Loo! It is even so. There are a variety of types of laundry in ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... full fling, what a picturesque, cheerful, lively affair it all was. The Hall was lighted only by candles in heavy silver candlesticks, which flared away all down the tables. In the dark gallery a couple of sconces burned still and clear. The dusty rafters, the dim portraits above the panelling, the gleam of gilded cornices were a pleasant contrast to the lively talk, the brisk coming and going, the clink and clatter below. It was noisy indeed, but noisy as a healthy and friendly family party is noisy, with no turbulence. Once or twice a great shout of laughter rang out from ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... he did not know what to make of it, adding, "When the gallery was last opened, there was certainly no hanging over the oak panelling." ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... the width of the previous part of the room, with a domed ceiling and an embayed window of such depth that the recess almost formed a chamber in itself. But both these divisions of the apartment corresponded exactly in point of decoration,—they had the same small panelling, painted a very light green, which seemed almost white by candlelight, each compartment wrought with an arabesque; the same enriched frieze and cornice; they had the same high mantelpieces, ascending to the ceiling, with the arms of St. John ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the 20th there were great disturbances, panelling and doors being broken down in various rooms. The minister was standing in the house door along with Magnus and two or three girls when Magnus said to him that the spirit had gone into the sitting- room. The minister went and stood at the door of the room, ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang


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