purfle

To finish or decorate the border or edge of.

An ornamental border or edging.

A decorated or wrought border; a border of embroidered work.

Specifically, in heraldry, a border of one of the furs: not common, for a border purfle ermine means no more than a border ermine. An attempt has been made to discriminate the number of rows of the bells of the fur by the terms purfled, counter-purfled, and vair, for one, two, and three rows. It is not usual.

To ornament or decorate with a wrought or flowered border; border.

To edge with fur.

To line with fur: as, a mantling purfled and bordered vair.

In heraldry, to decorate with gold mountings, such as the studs or bosses in armor, as in the phrase “a leg in armor proper, purfled or.”

In architecture, to decorate richly, as with sculpture.

In viol-making, to decorate (the edges of the body of an instrument) with a wavy inlay of valuable wood.