lambrequins

That Neshat's and Essaydi's art exhibits many of the same codes governing homosocial dress and behavior as do the centuries-old Islamic miniatures depicting women's eyes peering out from recessed lambrequins and tightly-wrapped veils conveys how deep runs the historical imprint of fundamentalist Muslim homosocieties.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

That Neshat's and Essaydi's art exhibits many of the same codes governing homosocial dress and behavior as do the centuries-old Islamic miniatures depicting women's eyes peering out from recessed lambrequins and tightly-wrapped veils conveys how deep runs the historical imprint of fundamentalist Muslim homosocieties.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

A suite in Paris, immense high grave rooms, with lambrequins and a balcony.

Main Street 2004

There should be a few good pictures or painted plaques mounted in plush hung on the walls; a portrait may be placed on a common easel and draped with a scarf in old gold or peacock-blue, and tiny lambrequins, painted or embroidered, may hang beneath a bracket supporting a bust or flower-vase.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

Unless her ears are deformed this style of hirsute lambrequins should not be worn by a full, round-faced woman.

What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

The severe line is also produced by velvet draperies topped by straight-lined lambrequins.

How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown

There were stuffy maroon lambrequins above the window casements, and two large blue vases, containing many-dyed plumes of pampas grass, flanked like rigid sentinels a pseudo-marble clock upon the truly marble mantelpiece which somehow suggested a mausoleum falling to decay; while the blue motive was further emphasized by a plush photograph album, with a little mirror let into its cover, standing in

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

I am Philip, and will occupy the parlor; I like it; I like the lambrequins at the window, and I like the pictures on the wall.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

Upstairs, by means of a spiral stairway, is a labyrinth of narrow, low-ceiled corridors leading to half a dozen stuffy little _cabinets particuliers_, about whose faded lambrequins and green velveted chairs there still lurks the scent of perfumes once in vogue with the gallants, beaux and belles of the Second Empire.

A Village of Vagabonds

But why do I pause to speak of such paltry trifles and signs of the times as lambrequins and window boxes, for was it not the time also, or nigh unto it, when a girl in Richmond named Irene Langhorne blossomed out in all her peerless beauty, and, so to speak, set the James on fire?

In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947