Valance vs Sill - What's the difference?
valance | sill |
Short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window.
A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.
(bedding) A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from the mattress to the floor.
The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
(architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also spelled cill. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
* 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office,
A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
As nouns the difference between valance and sill
is that valance is short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window while sill is (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.valance
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Alternative forms
* valaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bedding) dust rufflesill
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) sille, selle, .Noun
(en noun)- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses;
- the nasal sill