goffering

How to use goffering in a sentence

• Also, various smoothing-irons and goffering (crimping)-irons, heated on the hearth were applied to garments.

  Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century | Annie Lash Jester

• Not that she ever touched Soapsuds or Flat-iron or goffering-stick herself.

  The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 | George Augustus Sala

• The hands of the old dame would work nervously, as if eager to get at the goffering-irons and try once more.

  A Dozen Ways Of Love | Lily Dougall

• Fig. 20 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim, "What on earth has a goffering-iron to do with taxidermy?"

  Practical Taxidermy | Montagu Browne

• When he got home, he found Lucy sitting on a stool before the hearth, goffering the frills of a muslin cap.

  Barbara Lynn | Emily J. Jenkinson