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GOFFER

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 190 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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