ppl. a. Also 6–7 valenced (6 -ensed), 7, 9 vallanced. [f. as prec.] Provided or furnished with a valance or draped edging of a specified material.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 9 b. The compas of the Pauilion above, enbroudered rychely, and valenced with flat golde, beten in wyre. Ibid., 207 b. A clothe of estate … valanced with frettes.
1591. in Gentl. Mag. (1779), 121. The Canapie was of greene satten,… valenced about and fringed with greene silke and siluer.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xxix. An old set-stich’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xi. [The pavilion] was of purple silk, valanced with gold embroidery, having the cords of the same rich materials.
b. transf. Also ellipt., fringed with hair.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 403. What my olde Friend, thy face is vallanced [Q.2 valanct’] Since I saw thee last, com’st thou to beard me in Denmarke?
1817. Keatinge, Trav., I. 113. Men, barbons, whose faces have been long vallanced, act the parts of women.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, II. 179. A broad and nobly-cut brow, valanced with shaggy eyebrows, overhung serious, deep-set eyes.
1892. Speaker, 29 Oct., 533/1. A tall-masted schooner rode grandly in between the Heads, valanced with foam.
