Definitions

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  • adjective UK Having panels.
  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of panel.

Etymologies

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From panel +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • The walls were relieved with bands of blue and white bunting in panelled effects.

    Empire Day Banquet 1912

  • I had heard from Marmaduke Bannerworth some slight allusion to concealing the money behind a picture that was in a bed-room called the panelled chamber.

    Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2 1847

  • When we moved in to this house eight years ago the hall, to our complete mystification as to why, was "panelled" in rush matting up to shoulder height.

    MatchPot Land. Spinningfishwife 2006

  • When we moved in to this house eight years ago the hall, to our complete mystification as to why, was "panelled" in rush matting up to shoulder height.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • William Nicholson, co-writer of Gladiator, has set his new play in the panelled hall of a country mansion decorated with Damien Hirst dots, Allen Jones-style fetish furniture and Mark Knopfler's guitar.

    Crash - review Clare Brennan 2010

  • Not only will they gain you some storage—a shallow closet can hold bed linens or china and glass—but pretty panelled doors will give you that substantial feeling you want in a home.

    In the Mood for In-Between Spaces Rita Konig 2011

  • The walls and ceiling were of oiled and panelled redwood.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • He stepped out into the cabin, with its panelled walls of cedar and maple, and with its long table that seated ten, and at which he had eaten by himself through all the weary time.

    THE SEA FARMER 2010

  • This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room.

    The Smartest Hotel in the World Julian Fellowes 2010

  • Historically, it's been dominated by old men tasting wine in wood-panelled libraries, speaking with a little Locust Valley lockjaw (if you know what I mean, Lovey).

    Gregory Dal Piaz: The Most Annoying Wine Words Gregory Dal Piaz 2010

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