The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purfle \Pur"fle\, Purflew \Pur"flew\, n.
A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.
(Her.) A border of any heraldic fur.
Purfle \Pur"fle\, v. t. [OF. pourfiler; pour for + fil a thread, L. filum. See Profile, and cf. Purl a border.]
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To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
--P. Plowman.A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay.
--Spenser. (Her.) To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.
Wiktionary
n. An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing. vb. (label en transitive archaic) To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
Usage examples of "purfle".
He wore a jerkin, slashed and purfled, through which a fine cambric shirt showed its folds, having been teased through these slits, and across his broad chest a leather strap supported the cithern slung upon his back.
Clothes and ornaments, were broidered and purfled and picked out in sindle-whorls and fretwork, spirals and enamel inlays.
Zarabdas of Palmyra his name, and him in a silver purfled, black-girt robe of aquamarine blue.
Sire Hugh was not dressed in hunting gear, but rode up in his gown of violet-coloured cloth with purfled sleeves.
So, with your silences purfling this silence of man While his cry to the dead for some knowledge is under the ban, Under the ban, -- So, ye have wrought me Designs on the night of our knowledge, -- yea, ye have taught me, So, That haply we know somewhat more than we know.
It then comes to Bladdery and Purfle at once, tuned to one another at the filed edge of this runcible spoon and the negligible effort it will take to fill their common world with death, that nobody said anything about a fight to the finish, right?
Reluctantly, Purfle and Bladdery do relax, and, sighing out of puffed cheeks, part.
Clothes and ornaments, were broidered and purfled and picked out in sindle-whorls and fretwork, spirals and enamel inlays.
It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.