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Webster 1913 Edition
Lambrequin
1.
A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.
2.
A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.
Wilhelm.
3.
A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.
Definition 2024
lambrequin
lambrequin
English
A crocheted lambrequin (decorative drapery).
Lambrequins under overhangs and eaves of a building.
Alternative forms
- lambrekin
Noun
lambrequin (plural lambrequins)
- A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
- An ornamental hanging over upper part of window or along the edge of a shelf.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
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- A border pattern with draped effect used in ceramics.
- A covering for a helmet.
- (heraldry) In heraldry, drapery attached to a helmet.
Translations
A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing
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