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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

As he tripped before the solemn Academicians, "long, light curls fell over his goffered collar, his face was fresh-colored and open, his eyes a candid blue."

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore a round cap with a goffered frill and strings which tied under her chin.

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce

And the old lady shook the white trimmings of her cap, which was daintily and fairly goffered at the edges.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The sleeves are almost tight for about two-thirds of the arm, and end in a frill, on which are set two smaller frills, vandyked and goffered at the edges.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various