Hamlet [2.2.422-424], Hamlet speaking:
O, old friend! Why, thy face is valanc’d since I saw thee last. Com’st thou to beard me in Denmark?
Beard as a verb has the sense of “confront, oppose with” (see). Valanced is draped or curtained, like a bed. Noun form here.
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