The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vallancy \Val*lan"cy\, n. [From Valance.] A large wig that shades the face. [Obs.]
Usage examples of "vallancy".
I had never set my heart upon your cottoning with Constance Vallancy, though at one time I should have liked you to be friends.
In a few hours Vallancy, if he were indeed on board, would be with his wife.
Taking advantage of a momentary stoppage of the screw, and of the confusion on deck, Vallancy threw his portmanteau into one of the small skiffs which crowded round the steamer, and bade the boatman row him to the ferry-steps, calculating that he would thus gain a few minutes and avoid recognition on the wharf.
With the quick instinct of jealousy, Vallancy noticed some unfamiliar expensive trifles scattered about the tables.
Among them was a portrait in crayons, roughly executed by Vallancy himself of their child, which had died when it was a year old.
Middleton and Vallancy were seen walking arm--in-arm down King Street.
Constance Vallancy seemed to him less the being who had wronged him than the instrument of a remorseless destiny.
They say that Vallancy, who is mad about his wife, has had something to do with it.
And Vallancy gets his revenge, though I should think it is rather a good thing for him to have got quit of his wife.