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PURFLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
We use "purfle" mostly in reference to setting a decorative inlaid border around the body of a guitar or violin, a process known as "purfling."
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PURFLE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
verb (used with object). purfled, purfling. to finish with an ornamental border. to decorate (a shrine or tabernacle) with architectural forms in miniature ...
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purfled, adj.² meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective purfled is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for purfled is from 1737, in the writing of Allan Ramsay, poet.
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purfled
▪ I. purfled, ppl. a.1 (ˈpɜːf(ə)ld) [f. prec. + -ed1.] 1. Bordered; esp. having a decorative or ornamental border; bordered with embroidery, gold lace, fur, etc.; fringed; in vaguer use, embroidered, decorated. Also fig.c 1470 Compl. Christ 284 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 178 What shalle than pro...
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purfle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
... purfled). (transitive, archaic) To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte ...
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purfled, adj.¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective purfled is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for purfled is from around 1400, ...
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purfly
ˈpurfly, a. ? Sc. rare. = purfled ppl. a.21832 Carlyle Misc. Ess., Johnson (1872) IV. 94 The purfly, sandblind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible! 1832 ― Note Bk. 18 Jan., in Froude Life (1882) II. 231 A very large, pu...
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PURFLED WORK Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PURFLED WORK is delicate especially Gothic tracery (as in architectural ornamentation).
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Purfled Definition, Meaning & Usage | FineDictionary.com
Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. Usage in the news #. The violin maker and his assistants sit hunched over high workbenches and peer ...
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Purfled - definition of purfled by The Free Dictionary
To finish or decorate the border or edge of. [Middle English purfilen, from Old French porfiler, from Vulgar Latin *prōfīlāre : Latin prō-, ...
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Purfling - Wikipedia
Purfling is a narrow decorative edge inlaid into the top plate and often the back plate of a stringed instrument. It was originally made of laminated strips ...
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Learn a Word: Purfling | Skill A Day - WordPress.com
To be purfled, in this sense, means to be short-winded, especially as a result of excessive lust! Share this: ...
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Well curved, long-cornered, and strongly and cleanly purfled, these instruments represent perhaps the height of elegance in violin making, and were characterized
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purfle
▪ I. purfle, n. (ˈpɜːf(ə)l) Forms: 4 porfyl, -fil, purf(i)el, 4–5 purfil(e, -fyle, 4–6 -fyl, 5–6 -fell, -full, 6 -ful, -fyll, -fele, -phell, 6– purfle. Also (in sense 2) 6 purflue; (in sense 3) 7 porfil(e, -phile, 7–8 pourfil. See also profile. [a. OF. porfil (c 1215 in Godef.), later pourfil (1316,...
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trailed
trailed, ppl. a. (treɪld) [f. trail v.1 + -ed1.] 1. Drawn behind, dragged along on a surface, etc. (see the verb); Mil. carried at the trail, as a pike or rifle; in quot. 1797, made by trailing something.1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xlii. 169 After them followed forty other Chariots,..full..of..A...
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