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"ref": "1844, A[ugustus] Welby [Northmore] Pugin, “Orphrey”, in Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, Compiled and Illustrated from Antient Authorities and Examples, […], London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 169:",
"text": "This word [orphrey] is used for a band or border of rich work, generally of gold or silver texture, which is sewed on to church vestments and furniture. All copes have an orphrey, or border, on the straight edge. On chasubles the Orphrey at present forms a cross behind, and falls in a straight line, in front of the vestment. Antiently the Orphreys were the same behind and before, like a Pallium, as may be seen in all monuments of the middle ages.",
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},
{
"ref": "1873 September, “Needlework”, in George Grove, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XXVIII, number 167, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 431, column 2:",
"text": "In some cases these panel-decorations [of vestments] are similar both in style and material to the border or \"orfrey.\" [...] Orfrey signifies a gold fringe, or gold border. At the present time the accepted technical term for the border of the vestment is the \"orfrey;\" and this is used whether the border be of gold or coloured silks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, pages 207–208:",
"text": "He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, [...] The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in coloured silks upon the hood. [...] The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1923, Compton Mackenzie, “St. Cuthbert’s, Chelsea”, in The Parson’s Progress, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 136:",
"text": "I wish your lordship would do us the honour to come and inspect one particularly magnificent specimen of devout labour—a tunicle of glaucous silk powdered with red roses and blue fleurs-de-lys, and another of the same field with orphreys of gold and sown with peacocks, griffins, and sanguine cockatrices. And I may add that with astonishing accuracy this superb example is worn over a green alb.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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}
],
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"An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc."
],
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"Christianity",
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"ornamental",
"ornamental"
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"band",
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"border",
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"ecclesiastical",
"ecclesiastical"
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"vestment",
"vestment"
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[
"frontal",
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],
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"(Christianity) An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc."
],
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"Christianity"
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}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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{
"word": "orfrey"
},
{
"word": "orphray"
}
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "krumplování"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "aurifries"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"word": "kultapäärme"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"word": "päärme"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orfroi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orphroi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Aurifrisium"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Auriphrygium"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orifrigio"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "šírit",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ши́рит"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"word": "orfray"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aurfrés"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "orofrés"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"word": "auriphrygium"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, etc.",
"word": "dải viền thêu"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum"
],
"word": "orphrey"
}
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