The drapes were closed and had a ruffled pelmet made from the same fabric.

Proper curtains with tiebacks, a pelmet and frilled edges.

Do you know your pelmet from your parquet?

Miu Miu also reinforces the trend for below-the-knee pencil skirts while Isabel Marant offers pelmet skirts -minis layered over leggings.

The scutigera meanwhile, deciding it could not move the moth, lay draped over it like a pelmet, sucking out its vital juices.

The spellfire flared, blue flames licking around the pelmet, and in its livid glare Fern's face, too, looked blue, pinched with effort.

Kathy Lette wears a slick of bright-red lipstick and a skirt so short that she cheerfully refers to it as a "pussy pelmet".

Alongside this tomboy vamp look, Cheryl's predominant uniform has been a series of pelmet short, very structured mini-gowns that one might dub "power dresses".

I started with all sorts of pelmets when we moved in, even swags.

The pattering upon the plastic roof of my palatial trailer (it has pelmets) has stopped!

I searched behind the curtains and in the pelmets, even though these had predominantly been behind Bill as he sat in the chair.