| 单词 | goffer |
| 例句 | The flat hills of the goffer are likewise seen; this is a kind of large sand rat, living underground, of which I did not obtain a specimen. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Body high, open in front, and having at the edge, as a lapel, two vandyked and goffered trimmings, with very little fullness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The veins of the leaves are next impressed by means of a die, and the petals are given their natural rounded forms by goffering irons of various shapes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Moistening the tips of her fingers on her lip and keeking into my little oval looking-glass, she deftly arranged a stray lock of gray-black hair under the neatly goffered border of her white morning-mutch.' Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z A very high stock of black satin or linen surrounded the throat, with or without the points of collar showing, and a frilled shirt, often stiffly goffered. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z A new mortification for poor Cinderella, for it was she who had to iron her sisters' fine linen, and goffer their ruffles. Tales of Passed Times The sleeves are almost tight for about two-thirds of the arm, and end in a frill, on which are set two smaller frills, vandyked and goffered at the edges. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The ruff, which began simply enough in the first half of this century as a little cambric collar with a goffered edge, is for all of us the distinguishing note of Elizabethan dress. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" And the old lady shook the white trimmings of her cap, which was daintily and fairly goffered at the edges. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Meta Beggs was the mask, smooth and sterile, of the hunger for adornment, for gold bands and jewels and perfume, for goffered linen and draperies of silk and scarlet. Mountain Blood A Novel Hence our verb to goffer, to give a cellular appearance to a frill. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Edges may be goffered, that is, decorated with incised or burnt lines, though the result, like tattooing, is more curious than ornamental. The Booklover and His Books "Very well," Jean acquiesced, "you are getting to be none so ill with the goffering iron and the pliers—" "Better with the fancy than the plain!" laughed Patsy. Patsy “I ’ave curled it with the curling tongs—not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say—‘goffer,’ and for the rest, can you not see the wire? Pixie O'Shaughnessy The women fled back to their tables, and started ironing, goffering, crimping for dear life, with irons hot and cold. Brother Copas For forty-three years she had worn black and a widow's goffered cap. Fort Amity She wore a round cap with a goffered frill and strings which tied under her chin. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Each space is surrounded by a strong nervure and goffered by slight wrinkles or depressions. Social Life in the Insect World He was somewhat gloomy, and seemed to care for nothing but to talk with a very faded and wrinkled old woman in a tall goffered cap, who was an object of veneration to everybody. The House of the Combrays If she had only known a trade, how gladly she would have cut out dresses, concocted bonnets, or goffered the petals of artificial flowers. His Masterpiece The only advantage I might ever derive from her was that she would darn my stockings, sew the buttons on my vests, and goffer the frills of my shirts! Castles in the Air Her face, which was wreathed in a round white goffered cap, had the smooth, yellow, waxen pallor of the statue of Our Lady, in church, and her features the severe, sober kindliness of nuns'. The Path of Life The sleeves of this shirt are plaited or goffered in a way that seems wholly lost; this is what I have already described--pinching. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Its load towered above the lofty gas lamp whose bright light fell full upon the broad leaves which looked like pieces of dark green velvet, scalloped and goffered. The Fat and the Thin When she brought the white goffered mutch with its plaits and puckers, granny tried it on in various ways, Winsome meanwhile holding a small mirror before her. The Lilac Sunbonnet Oh yes, anything you like—the body trimmed with jet, if you wish it, and let me see, a gauze bodice, goffered, fastened to the throat. Love Me Little, Love Me Long Cardailhac breathlessly giving his last orders, and the honest face of Jansoulet, whose sparkling eyes, set over his fat, sunburnt cheeks, looked like two gold nails in a goffering of Spanish leather. The Nabob |
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