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PURFLE

Definition: PURFLE

PURFLE

Noun

1. Alt. of Purflew

Transitive verb

1. To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.

2. To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: PURFLE

Etymologies containing "PURFLE": Purfile. (references)

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Modern Translation: PURFLE

Language Translations for "PURFLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

kenarını süslemek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PURFLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PURFLE": purfled, purfles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PURFLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-p-r-u"

-1 letter: puler.

-2 letters: flue, fuel, furl, lure, pelf, pule, pure, purl, rule.

-3 letters: elf, fer, feu, flu, fur, leu, per, pul, pur, ref, rep, rue.

-4 letters: ef, el, er, pe, re, up.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: flareup, purfled, purfles.

 

+2 letters: fireplug, flareups, fourplex, powerful, prideful, uplifter.

 

+3 letters: dipperful, fireplugs, prayerful, prefeudal, profluent, profusely, reposeful, uplifters.

 

+4 letters: dipperfuls, dropperful, fourplexes, painfuller, pitcherful, pitifuller, platterful, pluperfect, powerfully, prequalify, presageful, pridefully, purposeful, respectful, superflack, superfluid.

 

+5 letters: bulletproof, dropperfuls, droppersful, fluoroscope, peacefuller, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, platterfuls, plattersful, pluperfects, prayerfully, prefectural, prestigeful, reposefully, reproachful, spitefuller, superfamily, superficial, superflacks, superfluids, superfluity, superfluous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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