A bed-curtain may be allowed on the side of the bed where there are windy currents of air; otherwise bed-curtains and valances ought on no account to be allowed.
The valances and bed-curtains ought to be removed, and there should be as little furniture in the room as possible.
No valances or curtains of any kind should be allowed, neither should their own boxes be kept in their rooms.
Since George Andrews did not list any bedsteads, it is possible that his curtains and valances were hung from bracketed frames above low wooden frames that held the bedding.
Where high post bedsteads were used, the curtains and valances were supported on the rectangular frame of the canopy or tester.
By the middle of the century, valances and curtains around the beds "to shut out the night air" were in general use.
His dome bed was yellow as to its upper works, with crimsonvalances above and yellow valances below.
Among the articles with which John Kidd and his wife Sarah began housekeeping in New York in 1692, as recorded in this inventory, were four bedsteads, with three suits of hangings, curtains, and valances to go with them.
We need all the light the windows give, so there are no curtains except the orange-colored taffeta valances at the top.
These valancesshould be strung on a separate rod, so that the inside curtains may be pulled together if need be.
There was scarcely any snow to put on the valances of the tents, and the wet salt soaked the bags, and you knew that there was only about six or ten inches of precarious ice between you and the black waters beneath.
The valances were encased in solid ice from the water which had run down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
