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▪ I. purfled, ppl. a.1|ˈpɜːf(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Bordered; esp. having a decorative or ornamental border; bordered with embroidery, gold lace, fur, etc.; fringed; in vaguer use, embroidered, decorated. Also fig.
c1470Compl. Christ 284 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 178 What shalle than prophyte þi gowne purfylled? 1520Treat. Galaunt 141 So many purfled garmentes furred with non sequitur With so many penyles purses hath no man sawe. 1600Holland Livy vii. i. 250 All of the Patritij, sitting like Consuls, with their purfled and pourpled long robes in yvorie chaires of estate. 1634Milton Comus 995 Flowers of more mingled hew Then her purfl'd scarf can shew. a1717Parnell Misc. (1807) 30 The purfled border deck'd the floor with gold. 1870Rossetti Poems, Jenny 117 But must your roses die, and those Their purfled buds that should unclose?
b. transf. Of a person: Decorated with purfling.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 9 Þenne was I war of a wommon wonderliche cloþed, Purfylet with pelure þe ricchest vppon eorþe. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1906) 30 Thus she shall be beter purfiled and furred thanne other ladies and gentill women. 1901Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 2/1 The Austrian knights with mace and battle-axe, the plumed and purfled Landvogts from Bern.
†c. transf. Applied as a border. Obs.
1652Collier in Benlowes' Theoph. Pref. Verses, But brighter Theophil behold, Whose Vest is wrought with purfled Gold.
†2. Her. Said of a charge having a bordering line, or a border or edging of another tincture: see also quot. 1868, and cf. purflewe. Obs.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 91 The Fesse was first, & then the Cantone was giuen in rewarde. Being of one colour, they are not purfled. Ibid. 180 b, iii Cheuernes, Humettes, counterchanged, Purfled Argent. Ye cannot say bordured, because nothinge may be bordured, that is Humette wtin y⊇ Escocheon. 1868Cussans Her. (1882) 129 Purfled: when applied to a Mantle, implies that it is lined or guarded with fur; and when to Armour, that the studs and rims are of another metal.
3. Arch., etc. (See quots.)
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss. 591 Purfled, ornamented in a manner resembling drapery, embroidery, or lace-work. 1842–72Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Purfled. 1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 12 b, The tall and narrow south transept, with its..flying and attached buttresses, perforated parapets, and purfled pinnacles.
†4. vaguely. Variegated. Obs.
1602Carew Cornwall 110 b, So thou dost line the earth With purfeld streames of blew and white.
▪ II. ˈpurfled, ppl. a.2 Sc. rare.
‘Short-winded, esp. in consequence of being too lusty’ (Jamieson 1808–24); plethoric.
1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 15 The language is out of condition—fat and fozy, thickwinded, purfled and plethoric. |