Look now at the magnificent "lambrequin" of sweet peas, which drapes the window and almost hides the box in which they grow. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening by Myself] Reference
The seat pads and lambrequin over window are of deep red velvet. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
A curtain, preferably of some dark color, should be hung on each side, and a lambrequin or valance across the top. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
In one of the upper rooms can be seen a mantel with a lambrequin on it and a clock stopped at twenty minutes after five. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
In pillows which break the long back line of a couch, in cornice moldings, lambrequin bottoms, chair backs, screens, etc., they lend life. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
All would have been well but for the seductions of a certain ice-cream parlor where candy, apples and cigars were temptingly displayed in a window, draped genteely with a fly-specked lace lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
She was leaving her husband; what was more grievous to her, she was leaving her home; she was on the streets of New York, with her small savings in her greasy purse -- clasped tightly in her two hands under her "Sunday cape," that was trimmed with fringe and tassels in a way to remind you of a lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
She glanced at the red lambrequin over the nearest window. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
She had vented some phase of drunken fury upon the lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie, a Girl of the Streets] Reference
A big man with a lambrequin mustache was filling the rear seat measurably well. From Wordnik.com. [When Egypt Went Broke] Reference
She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie, a Girl of the Streets] Reference
She sat in her dressing-gown embroidering peonies on a lambrequin and aired her grievances. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
He spent a few moments in flourishing his clothes and then vanished, without having glanced at the lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie, a Girl of the Streets] Reference
Beneath this woolly lambrequin his eyes were visible as two garnet sparks of which the coloured woman was only too nervously aware. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Julia] Reference
Scow Unloaders, him that has th 'red lambrequin on his throat, that married th' second time to Dinnihy's aunt an 'we give a shivaree to him. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen] Reference
Regularly, like the rise and fall of a wave on the summer sea, it rose and fell, while my pale lambrequin of hair rose and fell fitfully with it. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
Mantling, properly so called, succeeded the earlier lambrequin in the mid - fourteenth century as a close-fitting cover protecting the back of the helm. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference
It is a handsome bit of embroidery, of significant though mysterious design; rich in color, and with a deep, knotted fringe on the lower edge -- just the thing for a lambrequin, and to be had in. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska] Reference
I love also to go out in the kitchen and put corn meal down the back of the cook's neck while my wife is working a purple silk Kensington dog, with navy blue mane and tail, on a gothic lambrequin. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
A little brass bedstead, a mantel with a blue and white lambrequin, a blue and white toilet set, pretty pictures on the wall, and a small bookshelf, made a very cozy looking nest for a little girl, and so. From Wordnik.com. [A Sweet Little Maid] Reference
Mr. Clark said something about something being as many as the hairs of your head, and there was a bald-headed man who sat right in front of us, and he only had the teentiest bit of hair, just like a little lambrequin around his head. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference
His lambrequin mustache -- relic of a forgotten Anglomania -- had been profoundly black, but now, like his smooth hair, it was approaching an equally sheer whiteness; and though his clothes were old, they had shapeliness and a flavor of mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
I did but ask her yesternight for her green veil, that I might bear it as a token or lambrequin upon my helm; but she flashed out at me that she kept it for a better man, and then all in a breath asked pardon for that she had spoke so rudely. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Every now and then your wife will want a bracket put up in some corner or other, and with your new, bright saw and glittering hammer you can put up one upon which she can hang a cast-iron horse-blanket lambrequin, with inflexible water lilies sewed in it. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
When they got into their own room, -- which had gilt lambrequin frames, and a chandelier of three burners, and a marble mantel, and marble-topped table and washstand, -- and Bartley turned up the flaring gas, she quite broke down, and cried on his breast, to make sure that she had got him all back again. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
Abner had had a tolerance, even a liking, for his landlady's indifference toward finicky table-furnishings; but now there came a sudden vision of her dining-room, and the spots on the table-cloth, the nicks in the crockery, the shabbiness of the lambrequin drooping from the mantel-piece, and the slovenliness of the sole handmaiden had never been so vivid. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
I think, been suffocated with a lambrequin, there being those who practice that art) lay at the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
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