"Purfled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... avow it, for that I cannot say aught against other women but I say it against myself; these women that are so laced and purfled and painted and parti-coloured abide either mute and senseless, like marble statues, or, an they be questioned, answer after such a fashion that it were far better to have kept silence. And they would have you believe that their unableness ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio |
