Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PUR'FLE
PUR'FLE, v.t. [Fr. pourfiler; It. profilare. See Profile.]
To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; as, to purfle with blue and white, or with gold and pearl. [Obs.] – Spenser. Shak. Milton.
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