A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
An ornamental hanging over upper part of window or along the edge of a shelf.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 12, So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
A border pattern with draped effect used in ceramics.
