valance
Example Sentences
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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
Hybridization is introduced to explain the geometry of bonding orbitals in valance bond theory.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
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
Did it never occur to that young lady to lift the valance?
From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen
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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