Piece of drapery Victoria and Albert clean up (7)
I believe the answer is:
valance
'piece of drapery' is the definition.
'valance' can be an answer for 'drapery' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'piece of' bit.
'victoria and albert clean up' is the wordplay.
'victoria and albert' becomes 'va' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'up' indicates anagramming the letters (letters get chucked up).
'clean' anagrammed gives 'lance'.
'va'+'lance'='VALANCE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for valance that I've seen before include "Short curtain around a window" , "hangover on bed" , "Decorative frill, on curtain say" , "Decorative piece to conceal fixtures, of curtains perhaps" , "Drapery used as cover" .)