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What (who) is pelmet - definition

TEXTILE COVER OF THE UPPERMOST PART OF A WINDOW

pelmet

¦ noun a narrow border of cloth or wood, fitted across the top of a door or window to conceal the curtain fittings.

Origin

early 20th cent.: prob. an alt. of Fr. palmette, lit. 'small palm' (see palmette).

pelmet

(pelmets)

A pelmet is a long, narrow piece of wood or fabric which is fitted at the top of a window for decoration and to hide the curtain rail. (BRIT; in AM, use valance
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Pelmet

A pelmet (also called a "cornice board") is a framework placed above a window, used to conceal curtain fixtures. These can be used decoratively (to hide the curtain rod) and help insulate the window by preventing convection currents.

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Pelmet

A pelmet (also called a "cornice board") is a framework placed above a window, used to conceal curtain fixtures. These can be used decoratively (to hide the curtain rod) and help insulate the window by preventing convection currents. It is similar in appearance to a valance, which performs the same function but is made of fabric. A pelmet can be made of plywood, and may be painted, or fabric covered.

Exterior timber pelmets are a feature of some historic buildings, fitted on the outside of a window. These may be plain or decorative, with complex fretwork in some examples. These may be purely decorative, or serve to conceal an external blind mechanism.

Due to the appearance of a pelmet, the term is often used to describe an extremely short skirt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmet

Examples of use of pelmet

1. Because in place of the big bouffy hairsprayed newsreader pelmet, there are just some unruly little curls.

2. My costume can be described in three words: pelmet and modesty knickers." Her colleagues have been given altogether less flattering costumes.

3. As demonstration of the robins affinity for people, they list some inventive places chosen as robin nest sites: abandoned kettles, tins, saucepans, peg bags, rolls of wire, an unmade bed, a bedroom pelmet, a row of books, in the pocket of a gardeners jacket (built between breakfast and lunch), in a hole made by cannon shot on the mast of the Victory, under the front wing of a sports car, in the engine of a plane during the Second World War, in the body of a dead cat and in the skull of a man hanged for highway robbery in 17'6.