Meanings
- not comparableFurnished 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
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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
Origin
- Middle Englishvalansid
- Englishvalanced
From Middle English valansid; equivalent to valance + -ed.
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