purfle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To finish or decorate the border or edge of.
2. n. An ornamental border or edging.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To ornament or decorate with a wrought or flowered border; border. Specifically — To embroider on the edge or margin.
2. To edge with fur.
3. To line with fur: as, a mantling purfled and bordered vair.
4. In heraldry, to decorate with gold mountings, such as the studs or bosses in armor, as in the phrase “a leg in armor proper, purfled or.”
5. In architecture, to decorate richly, as with sculpture.
6. In viol-making, to decorate (the edges of the body of an instrument) with a wavy inlay of valuable wood.
7. To mark or draw in profile.
8. To hem a border.
9. n. A decorated or wrought border; a border of embroidered work.
10. n. Specifically, in heraldry, a border of one of the furs: not common, for a border purfle ermine means no more than a border ermine. An attempt has been made to discriminate the number of rows of the bells of the fur by the terms purfled, counter-purfled, and vair, for one, two, and three rows. It is not usual.

Wiktionary

1. n. An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
2. v. transitive, archaic To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
3. v. heraldry, transitive To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads.
2. v. (Her.) To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.
3. n. A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
4. n. (Her.) A border of any heraldic fur.