goffering

And finally, while we gazed round-eyed, came a large plain linen square that might have been cut from a sheet, a flatiron, and a goffering iron.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

I looked at the pile of other garments awaiting attention, and at the ruff and the goffering iron, and wondered how and when the rest of us would be able to get our own clothes ready.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

It may be easily made in this wise: Procure as small and fine a pair of goffering-irons as you possibly can, and have them drawn out and brought to a fine yet obtuse point by some smith, and you thus get a finished tool for about half what it would cost to make outright.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Fig. 20 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim, "What on earth has a goffering-iron to do with taxidermy?"

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Also, various smoothing-irons and goffering (crimping) - irons, heated on the hearth were applied to garments.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Of other units and utensils apparently common in Browne's day, such as "six-pound Australian meat tins", or "goffering-irons", make what sense you may.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

The women fled back to their tables, and started ironing, goffering, crimping for dear life, with irons hot and cold.

Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The hands of the old dame would work nervously, as if eager to get at the goffering-irons and try once more.

A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890

"Very well," Jean acquiesced, "you are getting to be none so ill with the goffering iron and the pliers --"

Patsy 1887

Mary were like the dazzling of a relief in massive gold, a marvellous blending of lacework and of embossing, or goffering, which burnt like the glory of a tabernacle in the mystic fire of its rays.

The Dream ��mile Zola 1871