English

Alternative forms

• paneling

Noun

panelling ‎(countable and uncountable, plural panellings)

1. The panels wherewith a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess:

     Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.

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Verb

panelling

1. present participle of panel