Obs. rare. [prob. the name of the French town Valence on the Rhone.] Some thin woven fabric.
c. 1381. Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 272. The remenaunt was wel keuerede to myn pay Rygh[t] with a subtyl couercheif of valence; Ther nas no thikkere cloth of no defense.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 47. Upon hir hed a kerche of Valence, Noon other richesse of counterfet array.
