Cementing UK/US relations (was Re: Vile sandwiches)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> The word valance covers both the bed skirt and the window dressing, 
> as it is a frilly length of material intended to hide "structural 
> detail" (I checked my dictionary – I'm no valance expert).  I like 
> the description `bed skirt' – it says what it is instead of trying 
to 
> sound sophisticated and French.  
> 
> It's a `too-much-information' day!
> 
> Neil/Flying Ford Anglia

I thought that the frilly length of material used in window dressing 
was called a Pelmet (sp???).

Have I been suffering from a delusion all these years?

Catherine