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Definition of Orfrays
1. n. See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Definition of Orfrays
1. Noun. (plural of orfray) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orfrays
1. orfray [n] - See also: orfray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orfrays
Literary usage of Orfrays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"... well bound with orfrays (ie gold brocade), with figures of gold. ... red, and
purple, with orfrays of gold and flowers before and behind. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"... and with an alb having orfrays with the arms of the King and the Earl of
Lincoln ; also one tunic and dalmatic of red sindon for the deacon ..."
3. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1865)
"In the orfrays hitherto noticed, the foundation is mostly covered with silk stitches.
Gold and silver threads are sparingly introduced, except as the ..."
4. Canterbury by Robert Charles Jenkins (1880)
"hyndes and running orfrays," fleurs-de-lys, and birds, ... Goldstone of blue
damask with orfrays of tissue, we find a list of the " ornaments geven by the ..."
5. Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend (1888)
"Item, one vestment, red, with lions, with silver, with braids of gold in the
orfrays of the same. Item, one white cape, stained with ..."
6. Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-latinus Princeps by Galfridus, British Museum (1853)
"The orfrays seem to have heen frequently separate, so as to he used at pleasure
with the vestment of colour ..."
7. The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham: Comprising a by William Fordyce (1857)
"A casule, 2 tunics, a principal cope, having like " orfrays" of gold of ...
each having similar " orfrays" of gold of " cyprys" of the set aforesaid, ..."
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