Gauffer

Quick meaning: Gauffer is a verb meaning (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute.

Meaning

(transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, historical, bookbinding) To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Example Sentences

gauffered crape

Into the hollow cylinder a red-hot iron is pushed, which heats it; and the smooth outside of the latter is used, on which articles such as frills and plaited articles are drawn. Crimping and gauffering-machines are used for a kind of plaiting where much regularity is required.

High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like the modern poker-work.

Word Forms

• gauffers
• gauffering
• gauffered

Synonyms for gauffer

Depending on context, synonyms include goffer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include goffer, fangle, glaver, gaff, fret, surfle.

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