purfle

[prettygoodword]

purfle - n., an ornamental border. v., to decorate with same.


There's all kinds of ways to purfle things -- with a wrought or flowered border, with inlay, with embroidery, with metallic thread, et cet. The original meaning is embroidered -- from Anglo-French porfil, from Latin profilare, from pro- in the sense of adding to + filum, thread.

---L.

Comments

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

One can, of course, have purple purfle.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

*groans appreciatively*

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

True, dat.

All too true.

---L.