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‖ parfilage|parfilaʒ|
[F., f. parfiler to unravel thread by thread: in OF. pourfiler, f. pour for + fil thread.]
The unravelling of gold or silver thread from laces, epaulets, tassels, etc.; fashionable as a pastime among ladies, esp. in France, in the latter part of the 18th century.
1894A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes Ser. ii. 256 Of the Austrian Court and its decorums, of its parfilage and its card-parties, Lady Mary has much to say. 1896Godey's Mag. Feb. 177/2 The business was known as parfilage, and the thread-pickers (called parfileuses), when they went to court, took large bags to hold whatever they received from the men. Ibid., The countess introduces a scene in one of her novels ridiculing parfilage. |