gauffer

Meaning of gauffer

verb
  1. crimp the lace edges of (a garment) with a heated implement.
    Mary's afternoon caps had to be goffered
    her goffered white bonnet
  2. emboss (the gilt edges of a book) with a repeating design.
    gold page edges on all sides have been gauffered in a geometric pattern

noun

a heated implement used to crimp the lace edges of a garment.

late 16th century: from French gaufrer ‘stamp with a patterned tool’, from gaufre ‘honeycomb’, from Middle Low German wāfel (see waffle2).

Information about gauffer

  • The plural form of gauffer is: gauffers.
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Hyphenation of gauffer

gauf-fer

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • gauffer is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

gauffer synonyms

Meaning goffer:

goffer

Words that rhyme with gauffer

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