valance

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

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

To supply with valances or a valance.

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

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.’

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

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

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

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