orphreyed, orfrayed, a.
(ˈɔːfreɪd, -frɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed2.]
Embroidered with gold; adorned with ‘orphrey’; bordered with an orphrey.
| c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xiv. 153 Arrayed in clothes of gold, orfrayed and apparayled with grete perles & precyous stones. 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. viii, He was clad with a mantel of purple orfrayed. 1546 Invent. Ch. Goods (Surtees) 137 Two copes of white damask, orfraid with red damask. 1865 Direct. Angl. (ed. 2) 20 The Orphreyed Mitre. |