lambrequin

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A short ornamental drapery for the top of a window or door or the edge of a shelf.

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A heavy protective cloth worn over a helmet in medieval times.

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A piece of textile fabric, leather, or the like, hanging by one of its edges, and typically having the opposite edge dagged, slitted, scalloped, or otherwise cut in an ornamental manner: used in several ways.

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In decorative art, painting on a surface more or less imitating or resembling a lambrequin, as in some Chinese vases, in which the upper part of the body is covered by solid decoration having a lower edge of jagged or ornamented outline.

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In heraldry, the mantelet, represented as floating from the helmet, and often forming an important part of the ornamental decoration of the achievement.

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A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

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A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.

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A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

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A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.

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An ornamental hanging over upper part of window or along the edge of a shelf.