lambrequin
/ˈlambrɪkɪn
/noun
1North American A short piece of decorative drapery hung over the top of a door or window or draped from a shelf or mantelpiece.Certainly the vocabulary of ornament - the lambrequin canopies at the top, scale pattern surface decoration, and elaborate plumed heads - are features common to Kent's designs for Houghton....
- The base of the octagonal lantern is adorned with female heads, an inner rope-twist molding, and an outer lambrequin fringe.
2A cloth covering the back of a medieval knight’s helmet, represented in heraldry as the mantling.
Origin
Early 18th century (in sense 2): from French, from the Dutch diminutive of lamper 'veil'.