different between purfling vs purfle

English

purfling (plural purflings)

(music, chiefly lutherie) Two or more very narrow strips of black wood enclosing a lighter-coloured strip of wood set close to the edge of the top and back of a string instrument such as a violin, cello or a guitar, following its outline, or this effect simulated with paint.
The purfling on this violin is exceptionally beautiful.
(heraldry) An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings.

purfling

From Old French porfiler, from Latin pro- + filum (“thread”). Doublet of profile.

purfle (plural purfles)

An ornamental border on clothing, furniture or a violin; beading, stringing.
(heraldry) An ornament consisting of a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or gold studs or mountings.

purfle (third-person singular simple present purfles, present participle purfling, simple past and past participle purfled)

(transitive, archaic) To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 1:
  It came to pass on a certain day, as he stood about the street leaning idly upon his crate, behold, there stood before him an honourable woman in a mantilla of Mosul silk, broidered with gold and bordered with brocade; her walking shoes were also purfled with gold and her hair floated in long plaits.
- 2003, Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito,
  Remembering the exchange now, Dickie smiled that winning southern-boy smile. Then he went glum again. He thumped the purfled sound board.
(heraldry, transitive) To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings.

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