valance

For a clean, custom look, Arnold sometimes likes to hide the curtain rod or track by tucking it behind a valance or crown molding.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 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 wore knit mits, had a lofty poke bonnet, and a "checkered" gown gay enough for a valance, and, although it was yet very early spring, she carried a parasol over her head.

From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Butterworth, Hezekiah

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 valances and bed-curtains ought to be removed, and there should be as little furniture in the room as possible.

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