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Meanings of valance in English
Synonyms
Examples for "cornice"
Examples for "cornice"
1
Original features like fireplaces, plasterwork and and cornice work await new owners.
2
Rodney was standing upon the cornice at the top of the window.
3
They rested upon the mosaic figures of two evangelists above the cornice.
4
The gilt cornice at the top of her bedroom window was hollow.
5
On one side, its cornice had an obvious and ominously large crack.
1
The drapes were closed and had a ruffled pelmet made from the same fabric.
2
Proper curtains with tiebacks, a pelmet and frilled edges.
3
Do you know your pelmet from your parquet?
4
Miu Miu also reinforces the trend for below-the-knee pencil skirts while Isabel Marant offers pelmet skirts -minis layered over leggings.
5
The scutigera meanwhile, deciding it could not move the moth, lay draped over it like a pelmet, sucking out its vital juices.
Usage of valance in English
1
It had high posts and curtains and valance of pale-blue flowered chintz.
2
Mustang GT with a Shelby scoop, flared deck lid, and front valance.
3
Fifteen minutes in the spring valance is worth tons of gold.'
4
He sat kicking his heels against the valance of the bed, and thinking.
5
Also she walked around the valance, counting its birds of paradise.
6
If the bed is hung with a valance, that, too, is pinned up.
7
A sort of canopy or valance, formed of various coloured cloths, hangs overhead.
8
The valance was of chintz in gentian blue and white.
9
Big pink roses splashed all over the cretonne counterpane and valance of the bed.
10
That leaves the black net dress and the sun-parlour valance.
11
She smiled up delightedly at me and crawled out farther from the bed valance.
12
An embroidered apron became of much more importance than a bed valance or counterpane.
13
There were no window curtains, but a valance of white dimity hung above the window.
14
In the front was an external valance of crimson velvet, richly laced and trimmed with tassels.
15
The ruffled valance is more suitable for summer cottages and bedrooms than for more formal rooms.
16
The four-post bed had curtains of green damask, all closely pinned around it, and a green valance.
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Valance through the time