purfles

segmentum, i, n. [seco], a cutting, cut; a piece cut off, a slice (not ante-Aug.; mostly in the plur.; syn.: fragmentum, frustum).

In gen.:

crassior harena laxioribus segmentis terit et plus erodit marmoris,

Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53; so,

segmenta percae,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 118.—

In partic.

A strip, zone, segment of the earth:

plura sunt haec segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere, Graeci parallelos,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 212:

quinto continentur segmento Bactra, Iberia, Armenia, etc.,

id. 6, 34, 39, § 216.—

In plur., strips of tinsel, brocade, etc., sewed around the bottom of a woman's dress; trimmings, bands, flounces, purfles, Ov. A. A. 3, 169:

segmenta et longos habitus et flammea sumit,

Juv. 2, 124:

aurea,

Val. Max. 5, 2, 1: crepitantia, Sed. Ep. 8, 6 med.