orphrey

US: (ôr′frē)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

or•phrey  (ôr′frē), n., pl. -phreys. 

1. Clothing an ornamental band or border, esp. on an ecclesiastical vestment.
2. Clothing gold embroidery.
3. Clothing rich embroidery of any sort.
4. Clothing a piece of richly embroidered material.

• Medieval Latin aurifrisium, variant of aurifrigium, for Latin phrase aurum Phrygium gold embroidery, literally, Phrygian gold
• Old French
• Middle English orfreis (later construed as plural) 1300–50

or′phreyed, adj.