the panel

the panel
   1. obsolete British
   the list of doctors available to treat the poor
   Those whom poor sick people consulted prior to the National Health Service. To be on the panel meant to be absent from work due to illness.
   2. obsolete a prostitute
   There seems to be no link between this panel and the American panel-house or panel-joint, a brothel, where the rooms were divided into wooden cubicles:
    Panels march by two and three Saying, Sweetheart, come with me. (old ballad quoted in EDD)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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