Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of panelak
The word itself is a colloquial expression in Czech and Slovak, with roots in both languages’ more technical compound term for “panel house”: Prestressed and prefabricated, panelaks were rapidly assembled and cheaply built to solve a post-World War II housing crisis.
2015 October 30, Lisa Schwarzbaum, “The Monoliths of Bratislava”, in New York Times
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