gauffering
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Though open to the widest, and exquisitely frilled, their petals are crumpled; you might think fairies had been gauffering them and left the work incomplete, surprised by dawn.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Not, however, unwillingly, because it enabled her to give her mind to pinking or gauffering, or whatever other craft was then engaging her attention.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
The style of gauffering is still the same as is seen in the muslin caps of so many Dutch pictures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in those of Frans Hals.
From Dutch Life in Town and Country by Hough, P. M.
We do not ourself know what pinking is, or gauffering; we have only heard them referred to.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Elizabeth glanced back into the kitchen where her aunt was sewing, and her two cousins gauffering the large ruffs which both men and women then wore.
From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah
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