Recent Examples on the WebShoppers can save up to 64 percent on functional blackout curtains, pretty valances, and sheer drapes that will beautifully billow in the breeze of an open window (or in the line of fire of an air conditioner!).—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024 The deep teal window panels and valance in this primary bedroom add an element of sophisticated drama to an otherwise neutral room, and draw the eyes up to create a sense of height.—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023 Mounting the valance at the ceiling draws your eye up, emphasizing the room's height.—Molly Miller, House Beautiful, 21 June 2023 In their places sit slit-like headlights and a simpler and more upright front valance.—Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2023 The valance is applied with Velcro!—Ann Abel, House Beautiful, 23 June 2022 At the other end of some harmonious character lines, the sedan’s rear lower valance is also EV specific, due to the absence of dual exhaust pipes.—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 Openings in the lower front valance provide all the cooling the EV needs.—Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 When dressing the space’s bay window, the Chapel Hill, N.C., decorator doubled down on scallops by combining tobacco-brown linen curtains edged twice in the motif with a matching, similarly-scoopy box valance.—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English valaunce, borrowed from Anglo-French valence, probably from valer "to lower" + -ence, -ance-ance — more at vail
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