Orphrey

Word ORPHREY
Character 7
Hyphenation or phrey
Pronunciations /ˈɔːfɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Orphrey"

What do we mean by orphrey?

A band of elaborate embroidery decorating the front of certain ecclesiastical vestments. noun

Elaborate embroidery, especially when made of gold. noun

A kind of embroidery in gold. See orphrey-work. noun

An ornamental band or border on certain ecclesiastical vestments, especially chasubles and copes, usually done in orphrey-work. The apparel of the amice, if done in orphrey-work, is sometimes called the orphrey of the amice. See amice, 2, chasuble, and cope, 2. noun

A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics. noun

A richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment noun

Any elaborate embroidery, especially when made of gold thread; an object (such as clothing or fabric) adorned with such embroidery.

An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc.

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The word "orphrey" in example sentences

Woven silk velvet ground, with orphrey of linen embroidered with silver, silver-gilt and silks metal threads couched; silks in split stitch; glass ❋ Unknown (2009)

Length 148.5 cm (orphrey on back) Width 41.3 cm (width of ophrey on back at widest point) ❋ Unknown (2009)

These shields are to go on the red velvet orphrey of the red cope that I have just made the last piece of my red solemn set that I made for my ordination to the diaconate. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)

Timotheos Prologizes: Here's the orphrey material skip to main ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2006)

The chasuble upon which this orphrey is placed is made of a lovely brocaded silk decorated with falcons, peahens, and roses. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

Sometimes most complicated patterns are laid down in string and covered with gold thread in this way, _e. g._: -- fig. 138 shows an interlacing pattern taken from the border of an orphrey upon a ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

On the orphrey are emblazoned the arms of Warwick, Castile and Leon, Ferrars, Geneville Everard, the badge of the Knights ❋ Emily Leigh Lowes (N/A)

Judging from these, and the embroidered orphrey which the authorities bought from the Hockon Collection for £119 1s. ❋ Emily Leigh Lowes (N/A)

But with the lapse of time the hood has into a mere ornamental appendage, and it is quite commonly represented by a sort of shield of embroidery, artificially stiffened and sometimes adorned with a fringe, the whole being fastened by buttons or by some other device to the back of the below the broad orphrey which usually forms an upper border to the whole. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In medieval chasubles these orphrey crosses often assume a Y form, and the crosses themselves seem really to have originated less from any symbolical purpose than from sartorial reasons connected with the cut and adjustment. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

How they clothe their figures in every conceivable splendor of orphrey and ermine, in jewels and shining armor and rich stuff of silk and samite, in robe of scarlet or in yellow dalmatic! ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

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