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GOFFER , to give a fluted or crimped appearance to anything, particularly toSee also: linen or lace frills or trimmings by means of heated irons of a See also: special shape, called goffering-irons or tongs
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" Goffering," or the French See also: term out rage, is also used of the wavey or crimped edging in certain forms of See also: porcelain, anrd also of the stamped or embossed decorations on the edges of the binding of. books
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The French word gaufre, from which the See also: English See also: form is adapted, means a thin cake marked with a See also: pattern like a See also: honeycomb, a " See also: wafer," which is etymologically the same word
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Waufre appears in the phrase un fer a waufres, an iron for See also: baking cakes on (See also: quotation of 1433 in J
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Roque-fort's Glossaire de la langue romane)
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The word is Teutonic, cf
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Dutch wafel, Ger
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Wafei, a form seen in " waffle," the name given to the well-known See also: batter-cakes of See also: America
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The " wafer " was so called from its likeness to a honeycomb, Wabe, ultimately derived from the See also: root wab-, to weave, the cells of the comb appearing to be See also: woven together
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