Purfled vs Purfles - What's the difference?
purfled | purfles |
(purfle)
An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
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*:the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes // & 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
To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
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*:And this was his message gretynge wel kynge Arthur in this manere wyse sayenge / that kynge Ryons had discomfyte and ouercome xj kynges // 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), (The Faerie Queene) :
*:Purfled with gold of rich assay.
*1885 , '' 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.
To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings.
