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goffering, vbl. n.|ˈgɒfərɪŋ|
[f. goffer v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. goffer; also, the result of this; goffered lace, frills, etc.
1848Webster, Gauffering, a mode of plaiting or fluting frills, etc. 1885Fairholt Costume Gloss., Goffering, an ornamental pleating, used for the frills and borders of women's caps, etc. 1889Century Dict., Goffering, flutes, plaits, or crimps collectively. 1894Brassington Bookbinding xii. 166 Accordingly we find in the sixteenth century.. much pains bestowed upon gilding, tooling or gauffering, and painting of the edges of books.
b. attrib. and Comb., as goffering-frame, goffering hand, goffering machine, goffering process, goffering work; goffering-iron, -tongs, an iron tool used for goffering lace, frills, etc.; goffering-press, a press for crimping the material used in the manufacture of artificial flowers.
1893Northumbld. Gloss., *Gofferin-frame, a frame made for holding a series of sticks or canes between which a frill is worked in and out in waving form. The whole is clamped by a screw.
1885Instr. to Census Clerks 70 Lace Finishing..*Gophering Hand.
1863Mrs. Beeton Househ. Managem. 1013 *Gauffering-tongs or irons must be placed in a clear fire for a minute.
1801Morning Post in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1802) V. 180 The skin might be found useful in mending the instep of a Hessian boot, or a *goffreeing machine. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 335 Crimping and goffering-machines.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Gauffering-press.
1857J. G. Wilkinson Egyptians in Time Pharaohs 41 The waving lines purposely impressed upon it [linen] by the *goeffreying [sic] process.
1847–78Halliwell, *Gofering-work, a sort of crimping performed on frills, caps, etc. |