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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. orfreis = Pr. aurfres, OSp. aurofres:—aurifrisium (med.L. aurifrisum, aurifrisia, aurifresus, aurifrixium, aurifrigium, -ia) for L. auriphrygium gold embroidery, f. aurum gold + Phrygius Phrygian: cf. Phrygiæ vestēs Phrygian (gold-embroidered) garments. The final -s, belonging etymologically to the singular, is now treated as the plural suffix; so mod.F. orfroi, formerly orfrois. The Eng. historical spelling is orfrey or orfray; orphrey combines Fr. or with the ph of L. phrygium.]
1. Gold embroidery, or any rich embroidery; with an and pl., a piece of richly embroidered stuff. Now only Hist. or arch.
[1222Ornam. Eccl. Sarum in Osmund Reg. (Rolls) II. 132 Stola una de aurifris. cum manipulis tribus.] 13..K. Alis. 179 With mony bellis, of selver schene, Y-fastened on orfreys of mounde. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 117 A hede þat was of smyten..in an orfreis [he] it wond. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 562 Of fyn orfrays hadde she eke A chapelet. c1425Thomas of Erceld. 62 Hir payetrelle was of jrale fyne, Hir cropoure was of Orphare. c1483Caxton Dialogues 36/9 Ther was therin many orfrayes and rybans of silke. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 35 You..see that ‘orefryes’ was ‘a weued clothe of golde’, and not ‘goldsmythe woorke’. 1706Phillips s.v., The Coat-Armours of the King's Guards were also termed Orfraies, upon account of their being adorned with Gold-smith's Work. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 158 [Charlemagne] clad in his silken robes, ponderous with broidery, pearls, and orfray. 1890W. Morris in Eng. Illustr. Mag. July 767 The King's pavilion..wrought all over..with orphreys of gold and pearl and gems.
2. An ornamental border or band, esp. on an ecclesiastical vestment, sometimes richly embroidered.
c1400Mandeville xxii. 233 Clothes dyapred of red selk all wrought with gold, and the orfrayes sett full of gret perl and precious stones. 1440in Eng. Ch. Furniture (ed. Peacock 1866) 182 One vestment of white silke with a read orferay. 1485Churchw. Acc., St. Mary Hill, London (Nichols 1797) 99 A childe's cope of clothe of golde and the orpharis of blue veluet. 1503in Kerry St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 113 The orfrey on the bak a narrow crose with warks. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 73 b, All the Coopes and Vestementes so riche..the Orfrys sette with pearles and precious stones. 1844F. A. Paley Ch. Restorers 21 The orphrey or border of the chasuble. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 66 The orfrays..are broad and elaborately chased. 1882Contemp. Rev. Nov. 679 The rochets and the orfreys, worn in the second year of King Edward the Sixth. 1894Athenæum 3 Mar. 282/1 A splendid cope of green bawdekyn, with orphreys embroidered with six scenes from the life of St. John Baptist, of late fifteenth century Flemish work.
3. Comb., as orphrey-web, orphrey-work.
1876Rock Text. Fabr. iii. 21 On a piece of German orphrey-web. 1890Stocks & Bragg Market Harborough Parish Rec. 53 note, In the fifteenth century Cologne became famous for the manufacture of orphrey-web. |