Sentence examples for pelmet from inspiring English sources
noun
Interior decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance.
The decor Chinoiserie, pastel furniture, waxed-pine pelmet boards and parquet floor reflects the taste of William Haines, a fashionable interior designer of the 1960s and 1970s who was hired by the Nixon appointee, Walter H. Annenberg.An endowment from the Annenbergs paid for Haines to refurbish the entire house, and supports day-to-day maintenance even now.
The television was in a corner, opposite a low couch covered in olive-green cotton; Carrie's mother had made the couch covers and also the floor-length curtains and the pelmet at the window, in mustard-yellow velvet.
"What's a pelmet?" replies Rosie, which - as if it were needed - served to remind me how much and just why I love this programme.
The pelmet skirt has disappeared up its own waistband, shorts have assumed more respectable proportions and idiot neck-breaking shoes are, by and large, over.
Breaking that chintzy old rose-patterned pelmet of a goal record is a genuinely wonderful achievement, one that for all the usual snippiness, imported from the wider industrial unhappiness with parts of English football, should not be overlooked or diminished.
"It's not a skirt, it's a pelmet!" squawks her mother.
Jaya Ibrahim, an Indonesian interior designer, reintroduced some of the building's colonial charm with new parquet flooring, shutters and pelmets as well as colonial-style furnishings.
Hebey called clients who came to her wanting pompons and pelmets "les irrecuperables," handing them a list of decorators and wishing them luck.
Elvis's chocolate-fur-covered sofa, canary yellow scatter cushions, caramel-coloured pelmets: all are rendered with the morbid eye and lurid flashgun of a crime scene photographer moonlighting for an interiors magazine.
Silvy's self-portraits show his immense studio with its variable configurations of top-lighting, pelmets, windows and drapes, reflectors made of white paper and calico.
They just show up a bit later banging on about pelmets and inventing new words to describe "beige", don't they?
