valanced

adj

valanced

adj

Etymology From Middle English valansid; equivalent to valance + -ed.

1

Furnished or ornamented with a valance.

  • An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed's head1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
  • 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.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 80:

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