gauffer
verbEtymology From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).
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To plait, crimp, or flute
- gauffered crape
- High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like the modern poker-work.1906, Eliza Davis Aria, Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical, Chapter 7:
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- Into the hollow cylinder a red-hot iron is pushed, which heats it; and the smooth outside of the latter is used, on which articles such as frills and plaited articles are drawn. Crimping and gauffering-machines are used for a kind of plaiting where much regularity is required.1861, Isabella Beeton, chapter LXVIII, in The Book of Household Management; […], London: S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, […], →OCLC:
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Arts, Bookbinding, Crafts, Hobbies, Lifestyle Historical To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.