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🎀 A frilled trim 🔥 A pleating tool 〰️ To make wavy
gauffer

gauffer

9.9
A heated tool used to press small folds into fabric
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɔːfər/
  • Archaic
translation icon : plancha de fruncir
  • She carefully heated the gauffer before pressing it onto the delicate ruffles.

Examples

  • Victorian dressmakers often relied on a gauffer to add decorative ridges to collars and cuffs.

  • The antique linen napkin was shaped with a gauffer to create intricate patterns.

  • The gauffer is essential for fine textile work.

  • Can you hand me the gauffer from the table?

  • The antique linen napkin was shaped with a gauffer to create intricate patterns.

  • Victorian dressmakers often relied on a gauffer to add decorative ridges to collars and cuffs.

  • She carefully heated the gauffer before pressing it onto the delicate ruffles.

Synonyms

gauffering iron
vsgauffer
  • Archaic
9.9

A heated metal tool for pressing pleats and ridges in fabric

is used especially in fine textile work rather than general fabric use
goffer
vsgauffer
  • Archaic
9.9

An iron tool for pressing pleats into fabric, especially lace

is broader, applied across fine textiles not only lace
goffering iron
vsgauffer
  • Archaic
9.9

A hot metal rod that presses and shapes fabric ruffles

is a general pressing tool for fine textiles, not only ruffles

Surface Forms

gauffer singular
gauffers plural

Etymology

Gauffer as a tool takes its name from the French gaufre 'waffle' because it works like a tiny 'waffle iron' to press ridges into cloth. It is heated and used to make neat pleats, which is why the tool is called a gauffer.