GOFFER  , to give a fluted or crimped See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance to anything, particularly to See also:

• LINEN

linen or See also:

• LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace frills or trimmings by means of heated irons of a See also:

• SPECIAL

special shape, called goffering-irons or See also:

• TONGS (O. Eng. Lange, M. Eng. tonge, cf. Du. tang, Ger. Zange, from base tang, to bite, cf. Gr. SaKVeiv)

tongs . " Goffering," or the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• TERM

term out rage, is also used of the wavey or crimped edging in certain forms of See also:

• PORCELAIN

porcelain, anrd also of the stamped or embossed decorations on the edges of the binding of. books . The French word gaufre, from which the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is adapted, means a thin cake marked with a See also:

• PATTERN

pattern like a See also:

• HONEYCOMB

honeycomb, a " See also:

• WAFER

wafer," which is etymologically the same word . Waufre appears in the phrase un fer a waufres, an See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron for See also:

• BAKING

baking cakes on (See also:

• QUOTATION

quotation of 1433 in J . B . Roque-fort's Glossaire de la langue romane) . The word is See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic, cf . Dutch wafel, Ger . Wafei, a form seen in " waffle," the name given to the well-known See also:

• BATTER

batter-cakes of See also:

• AMERICA

America . The " wafer " was so called from its likeness to a honeycomb, Wabe, ultimately derived from the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root wab-, to weave, the cells of the See also:

• COMB (a word common in various forms to Teut. languages, cf. Ger. Kamm, the Indo-Europ. origin of which is seen in yoµros, a peg or pin, and Sanskrit, gambhas, a tooth)

comb appearing to be See also:

• WOVEN

woven together .