valances
- plural of valance.
Example Sentences
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The studio quietly held it in storage after wrapping production on the original in 2014, with its upholstered valances and window blinds still intact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
For the past 28 years, these floor-to-ceiling curtains with blue banding and six curved Empire valances, installed on Clinton’s Inauguration Day, have garnered bipartisan support.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2021
The Great Chamber bedroom features cushioned window seats, a lovely canopy bed with yellow valances highlighted in red and green, and a wooden highboy.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
Plywood valances worth $45 but requiring some $290 in labor to correct faulty installation.
From Time Magazine Archive
After satisfying myself of the fastening of the door, I began to walk about the room, peering round each article of furniture, tucking up the valances of the bed, and opening its curtains wide.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
