valance

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

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

She held this until Lady Betty had dropped the valance, and the two could take their seats again.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John

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

It was Dunphy who mentioned the Kelley valances to investigators.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take down the curtains of the bed, remove the valances.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry