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Definition of Purflings
1. purfling [n] - See also: purfling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purflings
Literary usage of Purflings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1882)
"... the details of which he had personally superintended, with a degree o:' minute
attention to linings, trimmings, purflings, and garniture perfectly ..."
2. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1869)
"... and have joys supernal, and all manner of purflings of poetry, and what not.
It is right for you to wish these things ; but are you willing to labor for ..."
3. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century.: Consisting by John Nichols (1828)
"I thought its appearance at a distance was not what I had expected from the view
in the " Ducatus ;" the reason is, that a few years ago the purflings were ..."
4. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN While, your strings a tangled wreck, Once smart drawn, Ten
worm-holes in your neck, purflings wan With ..."
5. Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland (1841)
"The King of France too, he reminded Henry, had taken the minute attention to
linings, trimmings, purflings, and garniture, perfectly surprising in a male ..."
6. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward (1871)
"There you would like to be tickled, and lifted up, and patted. There you would
like to see visions, and have joys supernal, and all manner of purflings of ..."
7. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"The artist soul in this silent founder of the famous violin-making house spent
itself luxuriously upon exquisite purflings and ornamental scrolls, smooth, ..."
8. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"The artist soul in this silent founder of the famous violin-making house spent
itself luxuriously upon exquisite purflings and ornamental scrolls, smooth, ..."
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