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2. Window valance - Wikipedia

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   A window valance. A window valance (or pelmet in the UK) [1] is a form of window treatment that covers the uppermost part of the window and can be hung alone or paired with other window blinds, or curtains. Valances are a popular decorative choice in concealing drapery hardware. Window valances were popular in Victorian interior design.

3. Border tartan - Wikipedia

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   A modern version of the Border tartan. Border tartan, sometimes known as Borders tartan, Northumbrian tartan, Northumberland tartan, shepherds' plaid, shepherds' check, Border drab, or Border check, is a design used in woven fabrics historically associated with the Anglo-Scottish Border, particularly with the Scottish Borders and Northumberland.

4. Country Curtains - Wikipedia

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   In addition to curtains, panels, shades and top treatments, Country Curtains offered curtain rods and home decorating accessories such as bedding, rugs, lamps, and prints. Along with a number of retail stores, the company maintained its flagship store on Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

5. Plaid - Wikipedia

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   Belted plaid or "great kilt", an earlier form of the kilt, it was a large plaid (blanket) pleated by hand and belted around the waist Arisaid , ladieswear equivalent of the belted plaid, worn until the 18th century as a large shawl or wrapped into a dress; in later times, shrank to a smaller plaid worn as a shoulder or head shawl

6. Lace curtain and shanty Irish - Wikipedia

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   As lace curtains became commonplace in Irish-American working-class homes, "lace curtain" was still used in a metaphorical, and often pejorative, sense. In the early 20th century, James Michael Curley , a famously populist Boston politician who was called "mayor of the poor", used the term "cut glass Irish" to mock the Irish-American middle ...

7. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Wikipedia

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   Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.