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valance

/val-uhns, vey-luhns/US // ˈvæl əns, ˈveɪ ləns //UK // (ˈvæləns) //

阀瓣,阀条,阀门,门帘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short curtain or piece of drapery that is hung from the edge of a canopy, from the frame of a bed, etc.
    • : a short ornamental piece of drapery placed across the top of a window.

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Examples

  • At this point Marvin gives his Liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.

  • When the legend becomes fact,” a journalist says of Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “we print the legend.

  • So Sara Lee got into her white bed with the dotted Swiss valance, and drew the covers to her chin, and looked a scant sixteen.

  • But, as no assignable sense has been found for valance, I can only suppose that it is an error for falance or fallance.

  • Christina looked along his arm, along the lifted revolver, to what was now only a dark opening in the valance.

  • He still stood with his back to her, and, from under his bent brows, his glance shot up and found the parting of the valance.

  • It had high posts and curtains and valance of pale-blue flowered chintz.