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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 190 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOFFER , to give a fluted or crimped See also:

appearance to anything, particularly to See also:linen or See also:lace frills or trimmings by means of heated irons of a See also:special shape, called goffering-irons or See also:tongs. " Goffering," or the See also: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. 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. Waufre appears in the phrase un fer a waufres, an See also:iron for See also:baking cakes on (See also:quotation of 1433 in J. B. Roque-fort's Glossaire de la langue romane). The word is See also:Teutonic, cf. Dutch wafel, Ger. Wafei, a form seen in " waffle," the name given to the well-known See also:batter-cakes of See also:America. 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 See also:comb appearing to be See also:woven together.

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