purfle
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purfle
- /ˈpɜːfəl/ UK
- /ˈpɝfəl/ US
Where it comes from
From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile.
noun purfles · purflew · purfyle
- An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes /[…]/ wherfor he sente for his berd or els he wold entre in to his landes /[…]/ & neuer leue tyl he haue the hede and the berd / wel sayd Arthur thow hast said thy message / the whiche is the most vylay
- An ornamental border, edge, or line of a different tincture or material. Adumbration (or Transparency) is a clear Exemption of the Substance of the Charge, so that there remaineth only the outward Strokes or Purfle of a Thing;
verb purfles · purfling · purfled · purflew · purfyle
- To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. And this was his message gretynge wel kynge Arthur in this manere wyse sayenge / that kynge Ryons had discomfyte and ouercome xj kynges /[…]/ they gaf hym their berdys clene flayne[…]/ wher for the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes / and th
- To ornament with purfle. Crest; a dragon passant proper, wings elevated and purfled gules.
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verb (archaic) decorate with ornamental border
| Русский | отде́лывать каймо́й otdélyvatʹ kajmój |
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title = {purfle},
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