purfle
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French porfiler, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pro- + filum (“thread”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
purfle (plural purfles)
- An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I::
- 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 vylaynous and lewdest message that euer man herd sente vnto a kynge / Also thow mayst see / my berd is ful yong yet to make a purfyl of hit
- (heraldry) An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings.
Verb
purfle (third-person singular simple present purfl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle purfled)
- (transitive, archaic) To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I::
- 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 there lacked one place of the mantel
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 10:
- He had a faire companion of his way, / A goodly Lady, clad in ſcarlot red, / Purfled with gold and pearle of rich aſſay, […]
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 1:
- It came to pass on a certain day, as he stood about the street leaning idly upon his crate, behold, there stood before him an honourable woman in a mantilla of Mosul silk, broidered with gold and bordered with brocade; her walking shoes were also purfled with gold and her hair floated in long plaits.
- 2003, Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito,
- Remembering the exchange now, Dickie smiled that winning southern-boy smile. Then he went glum again. He thumped the purfled sound board.
- (heraldry, transitive) To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings.
Translations
special order in interrogative sentences
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