valance

At the center, resting on a plinth in front of a shallow niche and beneath a graceful valance of laurel, is French’s striking bronze portrait bust of Hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Working with her sister, a seamstress, she made a textile valance for the ceiling and added long curtains on a concealed rod that can wrap the sleeping spaces in fabric.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

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

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

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

There was a high four-poster bed in one corner, with a chintz valance around it, and pink silk quilled into the tester.

From The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

The design is pretty for bordering table scarfs, tidies, valances and curtains when heavy braids are selected.

From The Art of Modern Lace Making by The Butterick Publishing Co.