1) Decorative drapery 2) Scarf 
drapery over a window or doorway; veil over a helmethood or covering for a helmet
• (n.) A leather flap hanging from a cuirass. • (n.) A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat. • (n.) 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.Lambrequin: words in the defi...
A design based on a pendent drapery effect. The word originally described a scarf worn across a knight's helmet which was stylised in heraldic designs as the mantel around a coat of arms. In the latter part of the 17thC, the French applied the term to swagged or festooned drapery. The theme was adapted by furniture-makers and carved on picture and ...
A cornice that completely frames a window.
a cornice that completely frames the window; sometimes used interchangeably with valance or cantonniereA design based on a pendent drapery effect. The word originally described a scarf worn across a knight's helmet which was stylised in heraldic designs as the mantel around a coat of arms. In the latter part of the 17thC, the French applied the term to swagged or festooned drapery. The theme was adapted by furniture-makers and carved on picture and …...
Lam'bre·quin noun [ French Confer Lamboys , Label .] 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 hang...
Lambrequin was originally a material covering worn over a helmet. It is now a term applied to a short piece of drapery hung over the top of a door or window.A lambrequin is a strip of leather or metal suspended from the waist as flexible armour for the thighs. A skirt of lambrequins was a popular part of the Roman soldier's armour.
[n] - a scarf that covers a knight`s helmet 2. [n] - short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing
noun short and decorative hanging for a shelf edge or top of a window casing
A deeply scalloped fringe-like ornament common in late 17thC French decorative arts introduced to England by Daniel Marot.