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valance
noun as in curtain
Example Sentences
Bits of shiny carbon fiber help to stabilize the vehicle at higher speeds, including a lengthened roof spoiler and a new aerodynamic lower rear valance.
Starting at the front valance, the raw carbon look advances down the side of the DBX707, notably making up the sill, or rocker panel, which has been reshaped to better move air around the rear wheel.
At this point Marvin gives his Liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.
When the legend becomes fact,” a journalist says of Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “we print the legend.
So Sara Lee got into her white bed with the dotted Swiss valance, and drew the covers to her chin, and looked a scant sixteen.
But, as no assignable sense has been found for valance, I can only suppose that it is an error for falance or fallance.
Christina looked along his arm, along the lifted revolver, to what was now only a dark opening in the valance.
He still stood with his back to her, and, from under his bent brows, his glance shot up and found the parting of the valance.
It had high posts and curtains and valance of pale-blue flowered chintz.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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