"valance" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English valance",
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    },
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      },
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    },
    {
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        "2": "valence"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "valer",
        "3": "",
        "4": "go down, let down"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "fro",
        "3": "avaler",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to descend, go down"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English valance, valans, valaunce, valence, valons. Origin uncertain. Probably from Anglo-Norman valaunce, valence, from valer (“go down, let down”), aphetic form of Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "valances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "valance (plural valances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "13 25 20 10 30 3",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27",
          "text": "Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-IKn-U7KO",
      "links": [
        [
          "curtain",
          "curtain"
        ],
        [
          "window",
          "window"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "45 31 10 8 3 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "draperija",
          "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "драперия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 31 10 8 3 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
          "word": "kappaverho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 31 10 8 3 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
          "word": "kappa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 31 10 8 3 2",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "vilonit",
          "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "וילונית"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "45 31 10 8 3 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "svag",
          "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "сваг"
        }
      ]
    },
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          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-oZ7MKdnb",
      "links": [
        [
          "framework",
          "framework"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 58 30 4 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism",
          "word": "verholauta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 58 30 4 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism",
          "word": "kappalauta"
        }
      ]
    },
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 20 26 12 17 12",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bedding",
          "orig": "en:Bedding",
          "parents": [
            "Home",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-encbWx4A",
      "links": [
        [
          "edging",
          "edging"
        ],
        [
          "bed",
          "bed"
        ],
        [
          "mattress",
          "mattress"
        ],
        [
          "floor",
          "floor"
        ],
        [
          "box spring",
          "box spring"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "12 16 33 12 9 19",
          "sense": "bedding",
          "word": "dust ruffle"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 16 33 12 9 19",
          "sense": "bedding",
          "word": "bedskirt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "12 16 33 12 9 19",
          "sense": "bedding",
          "word": "bed ruffle"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 9 36 29 6 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "short, decorative edging of a mattress",
          "word": "helma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 9 36 29 6 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "short, decorative edging of a mattress",
          "word": "helmalakana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "10 9 36 29 6 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pólog",
          "sense": "short, decorative edging of a mattress",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "по́лог"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-2WtFakID",
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 4 17 69 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.",
          "word": "helma"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel)."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-en:automotive",
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "auto body",
          "auto body"
        ],
        [
          "bumper",
          "bumper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive) A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel)."
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:automotive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "automotive",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed."
      ],
      "id": "en-valance-en-noun-XhVZ5pDz",
      "links": [
        [
          "trunk",
          "trunk"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvæləns/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æləns"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "valaunce"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "valence"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "vallance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "valance"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:English/æləns",
    "Rhymes:English/æləns/2 syllables",
    "en:Bedding"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "valanced"
    }
  ],
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        "4": "go down, let down"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English valance, valans, valaunce, valence, valons. Origin uncertain. Probably from Anglo-Norman valaunce, valence, from valer (“go down, let down”), aphetic form of Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”).",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27",
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there."
      ],
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          "edging",
          "edging"
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        [
          "bed",
          "bed"
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          "floor",
          "floor"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc."
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        "en:Automotive"
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        "A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel)."
      ],
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        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "auto body",
          "auto body"
        ],
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          "bumper",
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        "(automotive) A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel)."
      ],
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        "en:automotive"
      ],
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        "transport",
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        "The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed."
      ],
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          "trunk",
          "trunk"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈvæləns/"
    },
    {
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    }
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    {
      "sense": "bedding",
      "word": "dust ruffle"
    },
    {
      "sense": "bedding",
      "word": "bedskirt"
    },
    {
      "sense": "bedding",
      "word": "bed ruffle"
    },
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      "word": "valaunce"
    },
    {
      "word": "valence"
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        "obsolete"
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      "word": "vallance"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "draperija",
      "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "драперия"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
      "word": "kappaverho"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
      "word": "kappa"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "vilonit",
      "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "וילונית"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svag",
      "sense": "short curtain on top of a window",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сваг"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism",
      "word": "verholauta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism",
      "word": "kappalauta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short, decorative edging of a mattress",
      "word": "helma"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short, decorative edging of a mattress",
      "word": "helmalakana"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pólog",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "по́лог"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.",
      "word": "helma"
    }
  ],
  "word": "valance"
}