goffer
/ˈɡɒfə
/verb [with object] (usually as adjective goffered)
1Crimp or flute (a lace edge or frill) with heated irons: a goffered frill...
- After the washing came the drying and then ironing, goffering, and crimping before the laundry process was complete.
- Tumans could be goffered or pleated and were decorated with pompons made from color silk or gold threads.
- The body of the robe was of zero velvet, goffered, with a square pelerine of solferino poil de chevre amidships.
1.1 (as adjective goffered) (Of the gilt edges of a book) embossed with a repeating design.Full leather, blind stamped and tooled, goffered edges in gold.
noun
An iron used to crimp or flute lace.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French gaufrer 'stamp with a patterned tool', from gaufre 'honeycomb', from Middle Low German wāfel (see waffle2).