gauffers

Meaning of gauffers

verb, 3rd person present
  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

plural 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 gauffers

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

gauf-fers

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • gauffers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of gauffers

suffrage

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