panel strip

American  

noun

1. one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.

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Example Sentences

Charles Schulz's creations, from their modest beginnings through their phenomenal growth and complexities, revolutionized the panel strip and changed forever the nature of what can be said with simple, funny squiggles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walt and Skeezix volume one begins with the full 1921 and 1922 run, excluding color Sunday strips, the period when "Gasoline Alley" had just started to appear as a four panel strip after beginning in 1919 as a series of single gag panels.

From Time Magazine Archive