(n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two victims had fallen down a rock face after the breaking off of a cornice and had come to rest in the uppermost part of the accumulation area.
(2) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
(3) Helvellyn's Striding and Swirral Edges and Pinnacle Ridge on St Sunday Crag, from where Blackpool Tower can be seen, were for a short time corniced with frosted snow.
(4) The wavy furrows and ridges were repeatedly formed and appeared just like a cornice.
Valance
Definition:
(n.) Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.
(n.) The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk. which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
(v. t.) To furnish with a valance; to decorate with hangings or drapery.
Example Sentences:
(1) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(2) -- The given valance equation for a change in the concentration of a cancerostatic in tumor tissue has been evaluated using, for an example, a substance from the alkylating group whose mass number approximately coindices with that of cyclophosphamide in its active form.
(3) He can actually be quite good company, but he has a bit of a temper when things don’t go his way.” Once a serial dater, Nick settled down when he met former Neighbours actor Holly Valance in 2009.
(4) His girlfriend, the model, singer and former Neighbours star Holly Valance (pictured with Candy, right), briefly shimmers outside the door, a vision in white silk.
(5) Holly Valance is sad that she's no longer the world's sexiest woman.
(6) Four of these proteins exhibited the expected valances of approximately 10 and relatively low affinities (less than or equal to 2.2 x 10(5) M-1).
(7) Developer Nick Candy, 38, attended with his girlfriend, the singer and actress Holly Valance, 28.
(8) Valance describes him as “like a naughty schoolboy to my naughty schoolgirl”.
(9) Absorbance changes at 446 nm in purified cytochrome oxidase following flash photolysis of carboxy-oxidase poised in the mixed valance state at +220 mV show biphasic kinetics.
(10) Bryant duly writes his book and uncovers all sorts of secrets about Daphne's tangled relationship with Cecil Valance, the Rupert Brooke figure at the centre of the novel, whose memory is fought over for decades after his death.