She'll be right back, had todrizzle before we leave.
(dated) To carry outparfilage, the process of unravelling.
1908 January–June,James Knowles, “Extracts from the Journal of Lady Mary Coke”, inThe Nineteenth Century And After, volume63, New York, N.Y., London: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Printers,→OCLC,page433:
She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by selling these they realised considerable sums. Prince Leopold himselfdrizzled continually[...]
2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, inRAIL, number997, page39:
Up here, it's a 'dreich' day with steadydrizzle. Deep drainage channels either side of the track are already more like streams: Rannoch Moor is a wet place.
(physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops,mist, or sprinkle. Unlikefog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faintdrizzle.
(baking) A cake onto whichicing,honey orsyrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" inThe Guardian
Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemondrizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.
2009, Jules Stanbridge,Sugar and Spice:
The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemondrizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.
