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Definition:having deep ornamental frills, as with seventeenth century ruffs. They are created with a goffering iron.
painting: By Peter Paul Rubens (1615) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10104706
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Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone down to his room, undressed, again washed, and attired in a nightshirt with goffered frills, he had got into bed,
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous tongue.
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)
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She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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