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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 676 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANE (Fr. pan,
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Lat. pannus, a
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cloth, garment)
  , originally a piece of
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cloth, especially one of a number of pieces of cloth or other material joined to form one piece for a garment; the word is thus also applied to the " slashes " in the material of a dress made to show a rich lining or the colour of a lining when different from the
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outer side of the garment . In this sense the word only survives in
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English in " counterpane," an outer coverlet for a bed . " Pane " is used frequently for the flat side of anything, especially in
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diamond-cutting of the sides to the " table " of a brilliant, or to the faces of a
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bolt nut or hammer-head . The most
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common use of the word now is that of a piece of glass filling a compartment in a window . In architecture the word is also applied to a
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bay of a window, compartment of a
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partition, side of a tower, turret, &c .

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