Definition of "valanced"

An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed's head

1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]

As you approach the Thames, you are riding with the ghost of the London & South Western Railway, which built many of the stations used by the District for its westerly push. The clue lies in the valanced - or serrated - white wooden station canopies, which give some of the stops a country branch air.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 80