purfle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To finish or decorate the border or edge of.
• noun An ornamental border or edging.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To ornament or decorate with a wrought or flowered border; border.
• To edge with fur.
• To line with fur: as, a mantling purfled and bordered vair.
• In heraldry, to decorate with gold mountings, such as the studs or bosses in armor, as in the phrase “a leg in armor proper, purfled or.”
• In architecture, to decorate richly, as with sculpture.
• In viol-making, to decorate (the edges of the body of an instrument) with a wavy inlay of valuable wood.
• To mark or draw in profile.
• To hem a border.
• noun A decorated or wrought border; a border of embroidered work.
• noun Specifically, in heraldry, a border of one of the furs: not common, for a border purfle ermine means no more than a border ermine. An attempt has been made to discriminate the number of rows of the bells of the fur by the terms purfled, counter-purfled, and vair, for one, two, and three rows. It is not usual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads.
• transitive verb (Her.) To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.
• noun A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
• noun (Her.) A border of any heraldic fur.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
• verb transitive, archaic To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
• verb heraldry, transitive To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings.