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A crocheted lambrequin (decorative drapery).
 
Lambrequins under overhangs and eaves of a building.

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Borrowed from French lambrequin.

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lambrequin (plural lambrequins)

  1. A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet.
  2. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an item: mantling.
     
    Heraldic lambrequins.
  3. (US) A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
  4. (ceramics) A border pattern with draped effect.

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  • IPA(key): /lɑ̃.bʁə.kɛ̃/
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lambrequin m (plural lambrequins)

  1. lambrequin (all senses)
  2. (heraldry) mantling

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