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purfle (PUR-fuhl) - n., a ruffled or curved ornamental band, as on clothing, furniture, etc.; v., to furnish with such a border.
So the inlay around the edge of a violin case is a purfle, as is the frilly edge of certain dresses (which latter is what I usually think of with this word). Adopted as purfilen (as the verb form) around 1300 from Middle French porfiler, to make or adorn a border, from por-/pro- + filer, to spin (from Latin fīlum, thread, the ancestor of filament).
And that wraps up P week -- back on Monday with the usual random mix.
---L.
So the inlay around the edge of a violin case is a purfle, as is the frilly edge of certain dresses (which latter is what I usually think of with this word). Adopted as purfilen (as the verb form) around 1300 from Middle French porfiler, to make or adorn a border, from por-/pro- + filer, to spin (from Latin fīlum, thread, the ancestor of filament).
And that wraps up P week -- back on Monday with the usual random mix.
---L.
