orphray

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

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Meanings

nounorphray (plural orphrays)

plural orphrays

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of orphrey.

    Another Alderman, Master Thomas Robertson provided vestments of green velvet and white damask with an orphray (a rich embroidered border) of red velvet, another of white satin of Bruges powdered with flowers and an orphray of black velvet and green Bruges satin.

    2010, Kate Giles, “‘A Table of Alabaster with the Story of the Doom’: The Religious Objects and Spaces of the Guild of Our Blessed Virgin, Boston (Lincs)”, in Tara Hamling, Catherine Richardson, editors, Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and Its Meanings, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 273
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APA

orphray. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orphray

MLA

“orphray.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orphray. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orphray,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orphray.

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