What is "pelmets"

Usage examples of "pelmets".

Then, her head still back, she rolled it first one way, then the other, taking in the room, the faded tapestries on the heavily upholstered chairs, the black carved Chinese cabinets, the spindle-legged occasional tables, the faded rose velvet curtains with their heavy be tasseled pelmets, the carpet, thick, but the colors faded to neutrality, and overall, and in spite of the crowded furniture, the great emptiness that pervaded the room.

Unfaded velvet curtains hung in stiff regular folds from beneath elaborate pelmets, and upon several glass and chromium coffee tables lay large glossy books, unthumbed.