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

After surveying their distorted bodies and their impossible reflections in mirrors, my eye wanders off to the framing apparatuses of lavish curtains and valance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

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

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The valance is the fringes or drapery hanging round the tester of a bed.

From Hamlet by Charles John Kean

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

Both types had curtains and valances, were supplied with blankets and sheets, the latter, either of canvas or Holland, and there were several quilts.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester