NOUN
- an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- an iron used to press pleats and ridges
VERB
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make wavy with a heated goffering iron
goffer the trim of the dress
How To Use goffer In A Sentence
- However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal. Army Rumour Service
- Round her waist they made the loveliest belt of mingled blue and yellow, and all over the upper part of her night-gown, in and out among the pretty white fills which Dorcas herself "goffered," so nicely, they made themselves into fantastic trimmings of every shape and kind; bows, rosettes – I cannot tell you what they did not imitate. The Cuckoo Clock
- The goffering iron was a rolling pin-like round bar that was heated before use.
- goffer the trim of the dress
- Amit Goffer, an Israeli engineer, knows this all too well.
- Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice
- The cap thankfully minus the strings tied in a bow under your chin, came as a large oval shaped piece of starched and goffered linen. Carl's Christmas GIFT Challenge : Tradition
- Alas, Goldfarb was a little late with his security consciousness -- Goffer's line had already been tapped by law enforcement.
- After the washing came the drying and then ironing, goffering, and crimping before the laundry process was complete.
- Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice