valance
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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
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
There was a white face lying back among the pillows of a great bed, with carved posts and a valance of flowered chintz that smelled faintly of lavender.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
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
An immense broad sheet, a burnished bed of silver—lucid canopy of blue above—lofty mountains are its valances, palm forests form its fringes!
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Vocabulary lists containing valance
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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Vocabulary from Readings 4, Unit 9
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