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valence
Part of speech: NounA piece of drapery hanging round the head of a bed, or from the head of window- curtains.
Part of speech: VerbTo decorate with fringed drapery.
Usage examples "valence":- The singing of this lark in favour of the Duke of Anjou is not so evident as the cunning trick of the other French agent, the political Bishop of Valence, who now reaped the full advantage of his 1500 copies over the thirty- two of his rivals. - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)", Isaac Disraeli.
- In the heart of the maiden there stirred a something which she did not quite understand, something brought to life by the sight of her sister’ s daguerreotype lying at the edge of the valence, where it must have fallen from David’ s pocket without his knowledge as he lay asleep. - "Marcia Schuyler", Grace Livingston Hill Lutz.
- He is so much accustomed, and wants so much to be governed, that in 1796, at Hamburg, even the then emigrants, Madame de Genlis and General Valence, directed him, when he was not ruled or dictated to by his wife or brother- in- law. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.