valanced
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English valansid; equivalent to valance + -ed.
Adjective[edit]
valanced (not comparable)
- Furnished or ornamented with a valance.
- 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
- An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed's head
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 80:
- As you approach the Thames, you are riding with the ghost of the London & South Western Railway, which built many of the stations used by the District for its westerly push. The clue lies in the valanced - or serrated - white wooden station canopies, which give some of the stops a country branch air.
References[edit]
- “valanced”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.