Usually means: Embroidered band on ecclesiastical vestments.
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  1. orphrey: Merriam-Webster
  2. orphrey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orphrey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orphrey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orphrey: Vocabulary.com
  6. orphrey: Wordnik
  7. orphrey: Wiktionary
  8. orphrey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. orphrey: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Orphrey, orphrey: Dictionary.com
  11. Orphrey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Orphrey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. orphrey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. orphrey: Rhymezone
  15. Orphrey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. orphrey: FreeDictionary.org
  17. orphrey: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. orphrey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. orphrey: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orphrey)

noun:  (obsolete) Any elaborate embroidery, especially when made of gold thread; an object (such as clothing or fabric) adorned with such embroidery.
noun:  (Christianity) An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc.

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