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orphrey, orfray (ˈɔːfreɪ, -frɪ) Forms: α. 4–5 orfreis, -eys, -ais, -ays, 4–6 orfraies, -ayes, -eyes, 5 orpharas, -is, 6 orefrayes, orferaus, orfris, -ys, (orpheis, orphis, offreis). β. 5 orferay, orpheray, orpharé, orffrey, 5–6 (9) orfrey, 6 orphery, (orfer), 9 orfray, orphrey. [ME. orfreis, a. OF. ...
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Orphrey
The finest examples of orphrey can take hundreds of hours of work and sell for thousands of dollars. References
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Picture of an orphrey (Archived: 17 July 2012)
Embroidery
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Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton
Radcliffe left his own gown of crimson velvet (but not its fur collar) to Hunstanton Church, to make a cope with a cloth of gold orphrey embroidered with
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Serres Ecclesiastical Museum
The exhibits are grouped in four categories: icons, wood-carvings and fragments of chancel screens, metal artifacts, and orphrey, the largest category
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orfrayed
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 cl...
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Mercery
Dress embellishments could range from simple designs on the edge of sleeves to more extravagant designs made on bands called orphrey—commonly used by the
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Bertram de Criol
Liveried chaplains were appointed for divine service at Dover Castle in 1246, and in 1247 three silver chalices, a censer, and quantities of orphrey, samite
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orphany
▪ I. † orphany1 Obs. rare. (ˈɔːfənɪ) [f. orphan + -y.] The condition of an orphan, orphanhood.1539 Cranmer Let. to Crumwell in Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.) II. 389 My heart is much moved with pity towards the young lord of Bargavenny..by cause he is within orphany.▪ II. † orphany2 app. an error for orp...
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Dean and Canons of Windsor
The cope has an orphrey. This has been supposed to represent a Canon of Windsor.
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orris
▪ I. orris1 (ˈɒrɪs) Forms: 6 oreys, oris, arras, 7 orace, 7–8 orrice, 7– orris. [Apparently an unexplained alteration of iris: cf. also ireos.] 1. A plant of the genus Iris, esp. Iris germanica and I. florentina (Mayne); the flower-de-luce.1626 Bacon Sylva §863 The nature of the orrice is almost sin...
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