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gauffer

gauffer verb: to plait, crimp, or flute.

Verb

gauffer (third-person singular simple present gauffers, present participle gauffering, simple past and past participle gauffered)

  1. (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute
    • gauffered crape
    • High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like...1906, Eliza Davis Aria, Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical, Chapter 7
    Synonyms:
    goffer
  2. (historical, transitive) To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Synonyms of gauffer

Forms of gauffer

third-person singular presentgauffers
present participlegauffering
past participlegauffered
pastgauffered

Origin of gauffer

From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).

Questions about gauffer

What does gauffer mean?
Gauffer means to plait, crimp, or flute.
What part of speech is gauffer?
Gauffer is a verb.
What is the past tense of gauffer?
The past tense of gauffer is gauffered.

Words near gauffer in the dictionary

  1. gaue
  2. Gauer
  3. Gauers
  4. gaufer
  5. gaufers
  6. gauffer
  7. gauffered
  8. gauffering
  9. gaufferings
  10. gauffers
  11. gauffre

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