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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gauffer .
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Examples
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She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Madame Bovary 2003
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On the left, Robespierre in immaculate sea-green coat and carefully gauffered linen was quietly polishing the nails of his right hand against the palm of his left.
The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
reesetee commented on the word gauffered
In book design, describes gilt edges decorated with tooling.
February 25, 2008