valance
Example Sentences
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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
Behind her, fitted into the wall, was the bed with its curtain and valance of warm crimson, and spotless counterpane.
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
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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