valance

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Concealed with a valance or recessed into the cabinets, they can illuminate the entire length of a counter while remaining hidden from view.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

Hybridization is introduced to explain the geometry of bonding orbitals in valance bond theory.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Model ships and colored onion lamps, as well as the valance scalloped like waves that frames the waterfront view, affirm the maritime theme.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 3, 2018

Bob, can you talk a little bit about, the other fascinating valance around this today, at least in the public conversation around the testimony, is the notion that there can be no requisite mens rea.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2017

By the side of an old-fashioned bedstead, hung with snow-white valance, knelt the old gray-headed minister, and his low voice, broken and thrillingly solemn, went up in earnest prayer for a departing soul.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor