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from The Century Dictionary.

noun A crimping-iron used for plaiting or fluting frills, etc.

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Fig. 20 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim, "What on earth has a goffering-iron to do with taxidermy?"

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

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chained_bear commented on the word goffering-iron

"'There, now,' she cried. 'All your frilled shirts got up prime, with the finest goffering-iron you ever seen.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 230
See also goffer.

February 29, 2008