goffer

1 The women fled back to their tables, and started ironing, goffering, crimping for dear life, with irons hot and cold.

2 Edges may be goffered, that is, decorated with incised or burnt lines, though the result, like tattooing, is more curious than ornamental.

3 The veins of the leaves are next impressed by means of a die, and the petals are given their natural rounded forms by goffering irons of various shapes.

4 “I ’ave curled it with the curling tongs—not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say—‘goffer,’ and for the rest, can you not see the wire?

5 "Very well," Jean acquiesced, "you are getting to be none so ill with the goffering iron and the pliers—" "Better with the fancy than the plain!" laughed Patsy.

6 The ruff, which began simply enough in the first half of this century as a little cambric collar with a goffered edge, is for all of us the distinguishing note of Elizabethan dress.

7 The only advantage I might ever derive from her was that she would darn my stockings, sew the buttons on my vests, and goffer the frills of my shirts!

8 Meta Beggs was the mask, smooth and sterile, of the hunger for adornment, for gold bands and jewels and perfume, for goffered linen and draperies of silk and scarlet.

9 Hence our verb to goffer, to give a cellular appearance to a frill.

10 Cardailhac breathlessly giving his last orders, and the honest face of Jansoulet, whose sparkling eyes, set over his fat, sunburnt cheeks, looked like two gold nails in a goffering of Spanish leather.

11 Its load towered above the lofty gas lamp whose bright light fell full upon the broad leaves which looked like pieces of dark green velvet, scalloped and goffered.

12 If she had only known a trade, how gladly she would have cut out dresses, concocted bonnets, or goffered the petals of artificial flowers.

13 When she brought the white goffered mutch with its plaits and puckers, granny tried it on in various ways, Winsome meanwhile holding a small mirror before her.

14 Moistening the tips of her fingers on her lip and keeking into my little oval looking-glass, she deftly arranged a stray lock of gray-black hair under the neatly goffered border of her white morning-mutch.'

15 The sleeves are almost tight for about two-thirds of the arm, and end in a frill, on which are set two smaller frills, vandyked and goffered at the edges.

16 A very high stock of black satin or linen surrounded the throat, with or without the points of collar showing, and a frilled shirt, often stiffly goffered.

17 Her face, which was wreathed in a round white goffered cap, had the smooth, yellow, waxen pallor of the statue of Our Lady, in church, and her features the severe, sober kindliness of nuns'.

18 For forty-three years she had worn black and a widow's goffered cap.

19 She wore a round cap with a goffered frill and strings which tied under her chin.

20 Body high, open in front, and having at the edge, as a lapel, two vandyked and goffered trimmings, with very little fullness.

1 压印图案

tool

2 熨斗

iron goose flat iron smoothing iron flatiron sadiron

3 绉褶

ruffle

4 褶绉

goffering

5 波纹

moiré ripple ruffle

6 起皱

crisp ruffled rumpled creasy ruffle furrow ruck crumple shrivel ruckle

7 皱褶

ruffly plication ruckle ruga crimp crumple wrinkle crease

8 襞

ply pucker plica