Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.
- adjective (Arch.) delicate tracery, especially in Gothic architecture.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
purfle .
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Examples
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Upon it was a coverlet of green satin purfled with red gold, and above it hung a canopy adorned with pearls and gems, whereon sat King Zahr Shah, whilst his officers of state stood in attendance before him.
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When he came out of the Hammam, he donned a rich robe, purfled with gold and embroidered with jewels and jacinths; and, setting the royal crown on his head, sat down on his throne of kingship and ordered the affairs of the folk, doing equal justice between strong and weak, and exacting from the prince the dues of the pauper; wherefore the people loved him with exceeding love.
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She repeated these words to her husband and they waited till the appointed time, when the King bade his Marids bring out to them a great litter of red gold, set with pearls and jewels and covered with a canopy of green silk, purfled in a profusion of colours and embroidered with precious stones, dazzling with its goodliness the eyes of every beholder.
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Then the Caliph and his company drank, whilst the girls went away and there came forth yet other ten, as they were rubies, robed in red brocade inwoven with gold and purfled with pearls and jewels whilst all their heads were bare.
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Now when Shahriman beheld the girl, he saw that she was like a Rudaynian lance,303 and she was wrapped in a veil of gold-purfled silk.
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O Masrur, I will have of thee four pods of musk and four vases of civet324 and four pounds of ambergris and four thousand dinars and four hundred pieces of royal brocade, purfled with gold.
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Meanwhile, when the eunuchs went in to the Princess at break of day, she bade open the private wicket leading from the palace to the parterres and donned a royal robe, embroidered with pearls and jewels and gems, over a shift of fine silk purfled with rubies.
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When he came out, he cast over his shoulders a costly robe and crowned him with a coronet of jewels; he also girt him with a girdle of silk, purfled with red gold and set with pearls and gems, and mounted him on one of his noblest mares, with selle and trappings of gold inlaid with pearls and jewels.
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Battle, in whose ordinance is no wrong, for a seal is on his lips and he speaketh not; and the blood railed in rills and purfled earth with curious embroidery; heads grew gray and hotter waxed battle and fiercer.
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So after much pressure and abundant persuasion, they entered the house with him and found the vestibule hung with curtains of azure brocade, purfled with red gold, and Abu Mohammed Lazybones bade one of his servants carry Masrur to the private Hammam.
Gammerstang commented on the word purfled
(adjective) - (1) Short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty.
--John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808
(2) Full to excess, overloaded; swollen, inflated, turgid.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
(3) Also in the form purfillit.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
January 16, 2018