goffering

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• Also, various smoothing-irons and goffering (crimping)-irons, heated on the hearth were applied to garments.

• Not that she ever touched Soapsuds or Flat-iron or Goffering-stick herself.

• The hands of the old dame would work nervously, as if eager to get at the goffering-irons and try once more.

• Fig. 20 is the next, and I fancy I hear some reader exclaim, "What on earth has a goffering-iron to do with taxidermy?"

• When he got home, he found Lucy sitting on a stool before the hearth, goffering the frills of a muslin cap.