gauffer

verb

Etymology: From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).

1. To plait, crimp, or flute

   “gauffered crape”

   “High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like the modern poker-work.”

2. To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.