valance

At the center, resting on a plinth in front of a shallow niche and beneath a graceful valance of laurel, is French’s striking bronze portrait bust of Hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

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

Round the toilet-table crackled a pink chintz valance, draped in stiffest muslin.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

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

In bed-rooms of the present time valances to the beds are quite superfluous, as the bed-round is completely out of fashion.

From Household Organization by Florence Caddy