purfle

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈpɜːfəl/    /ˈpɝfəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
    — the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes /[…]/ wherfor he sente for his berd or els he wold entre in to his landes /[…]/ & neuer leue tyl he haue the hede and the berd / wel sayd Arthur thow hast said thy message / the whiche is the most vylaynous and lewdest message that euer man herd sente vnto a kynge / Also thow mayst see / my berd is ful yong yet to make a purfyl of hit
  2. An ornamental border, edge, or line of a different tincture or material.
    — Adumbration (or Transparency) is a clear Exemption of the Substance of the Charge, so that there remaineth only the outward Strokes or Purfle of a Thing;
动词 v.
  1. To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. archaic,transitive
    — And this was his message gretynge wel kynge Arthur in this manere wyse sayenge / that kynge Ryons had discomfyte and ouercome xj kynges /[…]/ they gaf hym their berdys clene flayne[…]/ wher for the messager came for kyng Arthurs berd / For kyng Ryons had purfyled a mantel with kynges berdes / and there lacked one place of the mantel
  2. To ornament with purfle. transitive
    — Crest; a dragon passant proper, wings elevated and purfled gules.

词形变化

purfles plural purflew alternative purfyle alternative purfles present,singular,third-person purfling participle,present purfled participle,past purfled past purflew alternative purfyle alternative

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词源

词源 1
From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile.
词源 2
From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile.
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