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🧲 A pressing tool 🧵 To shape fabric 🎀 A fabric frill
to goffer

to goffer

9.9
To press fabric into wavy pleats with a hot iron
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : goffrear
  • She carefully goffered the lace to create beautiful, wavy edges for her dress.

Examples

  • The seamstress used a heated iron to goffer the trim, adding an elegant touch to the curtains.

  • To achieve a fluted design, he decided to goffer the fabric before sewing it onto the dress.

  • "I wouldn't have used a goffering iron on this," he said, shaking his head over one of Julian's shirts.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

to gauffer
vsto goffer
  • Archaic
9.9

To press small folds into fabric with a heated tool

has the same meaning but is the alternate form without the tool name
to ruff
vsto goffer
9.3

To gather small folds in cloth to make a decorative edge

is formed by pressing into wavy flutes rather than by gathering pleats

Surface Forms

goffer infinitive
goffered past
goffered past participle
goffering present participle
goffers third person singular

Etymology

Goffer comes from the French gauffrer (from gaufre) meaning 'to make a waffle pattern', so to goffer fabric is to press it into small wavy or fluted ridges, like making a cloth waffle.