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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



... he was sitting burnt up brightly, and threw a red glow on the dark panelling of the room, on the brocaded velvet of the old chair against which he leaned his handsome head, on the pale, but finely-chiselled, features of his face. The look of subtlety, of mingled passion and cruelty, was becoming engraved upon that face: in moments of repose its expression ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... them all away and put in new ones. It might be made into a very nice room; the panelling is good. What it needs is Jacobean furniture, fine old hangings, and some bits of glass and porcelain ...
— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... of work too large to be placed upon the bench is in hand, pads will be found useful to rest it upon. These can be made by covering pieces of wood about two feet in length by three inches in width with cloth several times doubled, the work being placed so that a good light falls upon it. All thin panelling should be tacked down upon a board ...
— French Polishing and Enamelling - A Practical Work of Instruction • Richard Bitmead
... wings we went to the roomy bedrooms with their ivy-cased windows, mellow-toned panelling, and old open fireplaces. As daily living at Brandon is truly in the paths of ancestral worthies, so, at night, there are venerable four-posters, richly carved and dark, to induce eighteenth century dreams in the twentieth century Harrisons. Massive mahogany wardrobes, bureaus, and ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... in the heat and was silent, and Sabine Howard, the chatelaine of this quaint chateau, stood looking out of the deep windows in her great sitting-room. It was a wonderful room. She had collected dark panelling and tapestry to hide the grim stone walls, and had managed to buy a splendidly carved and painted roof, while her sense of color had run riot in beautiful silks for curtains. It was a remarkable achievement ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn


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