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Definition of: purfle
(pûr′fəl) v.t. ·fled, ·fling
To decorate, as with a wrought or flowered border; border.
—noun A richly ornamented border: also pur′·fling. [<OF porfiler, pourfiler <por-, pour- for (<L pro-) + fil a thread <L filum]
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