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▪ I. † surfle, n. Obs.
[f. next.]
1. An embroidered border or hem; also, one of the pleats made in hemming.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 906 The surfyls, les ourletz. 1615Crooke Body of Man iii. v. 110 That the same Chylus might the better bee sucked vp by the Veynes, these transuerse foulds make this coate longer,..for this cause also it was..gathered into Plights; and these foulds or surphles are moueable..as the surphles of a hemme gathered vpon a thred. [1846Fairholt Costume Eng. (1860) 593 Surple, a border or embroidered edge to a garment.]
2. A face-wash, cosmetic. Also surfle water.
1593Nashe Christ's T. V j b, At twenty their liuely colour is lost, theyr faces are soddin & perboyld with French surfets [? surfels]. 1611Ravenscroft Melismata D ij b, Red Leather and Surflet [sic] water, Scarlet colour or Stauesaker, Will yee buy any fair complection?
▪ II. † surfle, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 surful, 5 -fel, -fyle, 6 -fyl, -fyll, -ffill, -ffyll, -full, -pheul, 6–7 -fle, -phul, 7 -fell, -phle, -phal, ? erron. -ple.
[a. AF. *surfiler = med.L. superfīlāre, f. super- super- 2 + fīlāre, f. fīlum thread, file n.2; after perfīlāre to purfle.]
1. trans. To embroider. Hence surfled ppl. a., surfling vbl. n.
1399Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 133 Et in salario j mulieris surfuland prædictum baner 4d. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 614/38 Superfilo, to surfyle. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 516 Payd to Iohn Peryman for the surfelyng of nappre ware..vj. d. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 803 With burris rowth and bottons surffillyng [v.r. surfullinge], In nedill wark raysyng byrdis in bowris. a1529― Col. Cloute 220 Vnder her surfled [v.r surfuld] smocke.
2. transf. To paint or wash (the face, etc.) with a cosmetic. Hence surfled ppl. a., surfling vbl. n. (occas. concr. a face-wash or cosmetic); also attrib. in surfling water.
c1550Dice-Play (Percy Soc.) 35 This mother baud..having at home a well painted mannerly harlot,..went, in the morning, to the apothecaries for half-a-pint of sweet water that commonly is called surfulyng water. 1575Gascoigne Ferd. Ieron. Wks. 228 Thy painted pale, and wrinckles surfled vp. 1596Lodge Wits Miserie (Hunter. Cl.) 44 Shee had learnt al the subtilties of painting, dying, and surfling, some three yeares in Venice. 1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. i. 57 Smugge Lesbia Hath..A muddy inside, though a surphul'd face. ― Pygmal., Sat. ii. 144 What hether do'st thou bring? But surpheulings, new paints, and poysoning? 1604― Malcontent ii. iv, Doctor Plaster-face..the most exquisite in forging of veines,..dying of haire, sleeking of skinnes,..surphleing of breastes, blanching and bleaching of teeth. a1644Quarles Virgin Widow ii. i, For one ounce and a half of surfling water, o .7. 6. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 222 Our Court Ladies, with whom Surpling and Court holy-water are a little too frequent. a1652Brome City Wit iv. i, Her Eye artificially spirited, her Cheek surphuled, her Teeth blanch'd. |