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Definition of Purfles
1. purfle [v] - See also: purfle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purfles
Literary usage of Purfles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both by Doran (John) (1855)
"Thus it is stated by an old French writer, that " the use of great purfles and
slit coates was introduced by wanton women;" but he adds, with great unction, ..."
2. Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both by John Doran, Doran (John) (1854)
"Thus it is stated by an old French writer, that " the use of great purfles and
slit coates was introduced by wanton women;" but he adds, with great unction, ..."
3. Habits and Men, with Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both by Doran (John) (1855)
"Thus it is stated by an old French writer, that " the use of great purfles and
slit coates was introduced by wanton women;" but he adds, with great unction, ..."
4. Chaucer and His England by George Gordon Coulton (1908)
"... for they were the first that brought up this estate that ye use of great
purfles and slit coats. . . . And as to my wife, she shall not; ..."
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