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- noun Plural form of
panelling .
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Examples
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To-day, an acrid, nauseating smoke made its way through the panellings that partition off the quarters of the crew.
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Weng well workable, predrilling required for nailing and screwing, gluing and surface treatment difficult, resistant to wood pests, weather-proof for sliced veneers, for furniture, panellings, parquet, windows and doors, as structural timber in the building industry
1. Wood Dieter Zemmrich 1993
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He was especially successful as a designer of internal decorations -- mantelpieces, mirrors, doors and overdoors, ceilings, consoles, candelabra, wall panellings and other fittings, chiefly in the Louis Quinze mode.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The intention of the builder was to represent a Moorish hall; and the pillars of iron are, with the panellings of the walls, gilt and frescoed.
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Just here and there we find delightfully dark little dens with the original linen-fold panellings and ceilings that are a ravishment to look upon; but mostly the rooms are high, plain-panelled, and with the quaint ingle-nook fireplaces, with shelves above, upon which Mary placed her lovely "blue and white" porcelain which had been brought to her by the Dutch merchants who at that time were the great traders of the sea.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes
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Alongside stands a triumphal arch, of which the most perfect portions are the coffered panellings of the soffit.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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Shelters were built, with panellings and roofings of corrugated iron.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Traces of the colour can be seen in the mouldings of the panellings and in the carving upon the walls.
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Mounting together, they passed through the state apartments of the King, upon the ceilings and panellings of which Mr. Calvert noted the ever recurring sun-disk, emblem of the Roi Soleil whose sun had set so ingloriously long before; through the Salle de la Guerre, from whose dome that same
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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Across the end of the hall are similar panellings and the seats, with corresponding tables, of the women's dais; behind these and in the gable wall is a high narrow door with a rounded top.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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