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/ˈlæmbɹəkɪn/ · noun
(historical) A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet..
'Twere as easy to woo the snow-dame that we shaped last winter in our castle yard. I did but ask her yesternight for her green veil, that I might bear it as a token or lambrequin upon my helm.
A dead man (he had, I think, been suffocated with a lambrequin, there being those who practice that art) lay at the corner.
Lambrequins dependent from gaudy boxings of beaten tin, gilded.
[…]the mirror over the mantel rested on a fringed mantel-cover of green reps, and heavy curtains of that stuff hung from gilt lambrequin frames at the window; […].
A suite in Paris, immense high grave rooms, with lambrequins and a balcony.
Use lambrequin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lambrequin means (historical) A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet..
Common synonyms include mantling, valance.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'Twere as easy to woo the snow-dame that we shaped last winter in our castle yard. I did but ask her yesternight for her green veil, that I might bear it as a token or lambrequin upon my helm.
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