Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
orfrais .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
orphrey .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
orfray .
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Examples
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The second thousand is all clothed in cloths diapered of red silk, all wrought with gold, and the orfrays set full of great pearl and precious stones, full nobly wrought.
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He wears a cassock, amice, alb, stole, fringed tunic and dalmatic, and chasuble with orfrays in front.
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The inmate of this sanctuary, where the orfrays of old dalmaticas glittered in the mauve reflections from the windows of stained-glass, had just completed her twenty-fifth year.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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The inmate of this sanctuary, where the orfrays of old dalmaticas glittered in the mauve reflections from the windows of stained-glass, had just completed her twenty-fifth year.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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The inmate of this sanctuary, where the orfrays of old dalmaticas glittered in the mauve reflections from the windows of stained-glass, had just completed her twenty-fifth year.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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