Middle English Dictionary Entry
orfreied adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | orfreied adj. Also orfrai(e)d, orfrade, orforaid, orphreied & orfreised. |
| Etymology | From orfrei n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Embroidered or bordered with gold; richly embroidered or bordered.
Associated quotations
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7093 : Vnum integrum vestimentum de blodio damask, orphreyed de motteley veluet.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)101/32 : Þei gon full nobely arrayed in clothes of gold, orfrayed [F aoernez des orfraies] & apparayled with grete perles & precyous stones.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)153/3 : Þo robes ben orfrayed [F sont..orfrasez] all abouten & dubbed full of precious stones.
- (1441) Will York in Sur.Soc.30188 : Lego..unam capam..orfraid cum chekty velvet.
- (1449) Will York in Sur.Soc.45110 : De j chesable de panno auri orforayd cum imaginibus.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)19230 : The slyttes be his Syde, the hem abowte, Alle Weren They orfreysed, With-owten dowte.
- (1450-51) Lin.DDoc.45/24 : Also, I giff to the hous of thornton a cope of redde veluet opon Satyn orfrade with white damaske enbrouded.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)615 : He was clothed in samyte..his hosen of fin scarlet and his shone of white cordewan orfraied [F ourle dorfrois] and bokeled with fin golde.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)636 : The champ of the shelde was sable, and the gige orfrayed of golde harnysshed.