Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A crimping-iron used for plaiting or fluting frills, etc.
Examples
“Fig. 20 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim, "What on earth has a goffering-iron to do with taxidermy?”
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Irony
A list about iron, irons, and irony.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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chained_bear "'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. Feb 29, 2008