Efflower

Quick meaning: Efflower is a verb meaning (rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.

Meaning

(rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.

Example Sentences

In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.]

Chamois leather—The skin of the Alpine goat of that name, which has been “efflowered” or deprived of the epidermis.

Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.

Word Forms

• efflowers
• efflowering
• efflowered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include defleece, deflower, beflake, flesh, flea, unflower.

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