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n. An ornamental drapery hung across a top edge, as of a bed, table, or canopy.

n. A short drapery, decorative board, or metal strip mounted especially across the top of a window to conceal structural fixtures.

v. To supply with valances or a valance.

n. Short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window.

n. A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.

n. A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from the mattress to the floor.

n. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.

n. The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.

v. To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.

n. A kind of damask used for furniture-coverings, made of silk, or silk and wool. Also valentia, Valencia.

n. A short curtain used upon a bedstead, or in some similar way, either around the frame upon which the mattress rests (a base-valance), or around the head of the canopy (a tester-valance).

To furnish or decorate with a valance: figuratively used in the quotation for ‘to decorate with a beard.’

n. a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing

"The 6-inch ruffle on Lillibeth's dress, was a cotton eyelet curtain valance we had kept in a drawer with laces because we had no use for it but thought it might be useful for some stitchery item some day."

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