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valanced en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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 head 1759–1767, [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: