Panelling
//ˈpænəlɪŋ// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively. UK, countable, uncountable
"He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own."
- 2 a panel or section of panels in a wall or door wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of panel form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"We gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags’ heads, the coats-of-arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp."
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