Hast aught plotting in the hem of thy purfle, or in thy holiday ruff and fardingale?. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
If he can raise a purfle author's laws practically 200,000 places in Amazon's society with. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
Whatever is chosen would also have some type of purfle along the edge and on the top side as I always do. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Well, said Arthur, thou hast said thy message, the which is the most villainous and lewdest message that ever man heard sent unto a king; also thou mayest see my beard is full young yet to make a purfle of it. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1] Reference
"Well," said Arthur, "thou hast said thy message, the which is the most villainous and lewdest message that ever man heard sent unto a king; also thou mayest see my beard is full young yet to make a purfle of it. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
Milton says "to purfle -- to embroider.". From Wordnik.com. [Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.] Reference
"Esquires and gentlemen under the estate of a knight shall not wear cloth of a higher price than four and a half marks, they shall wear no cloth of gold nor silk nor silver, nor no manner of clothing embroidered, ring button nor brooch of gold nor of silver, nor nothing of stone nor no manner of fur; and their wives and daughters shall be of the same condition as to their vesture and apparel, without any turning-up or purfle or apparel of gold, silver nor of stone. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
"purfle a mantle" with. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
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