Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mode of plaiting or fluting.
- noun a kind of fluting iron for fabrics.
- noun (Flower Manuf.) a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.
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- verb Present participle of
gauffer .
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Examples
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The style of gauffering is still the same as is seen in the muslin caps of so many Dutch pictures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in those of Frans Hals.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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After the edges have been gilt they may be decorated by tooling, called "gauffering."
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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Elizabeth glanced back into the kitchen where her aunt was sewing, and her two cousins gauffering the large ruffs which both men and women then wore.
The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Crimping — and gauffering-machines are used for a kind of plaiting where much regularity is required, the articles being passed through two iron rollers fluted so as to represent the kind of plait or fold required.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Crimping — and gauffering-machines are used for a kind of plaiting where much regularity is required, the articles being passed through two iron rollers fluted so as to represent the kind of plait or fold required.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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