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Needlework > Embroidery > Orphreys

Preferred term

Orphreys  

Definition

  • Strip or cross-shaped pieces of embroidery, often worked very richly with gold thread, applied to such ecclesiastical vestments as chasubles and copes [DDA 89]; also, rich embroidery or richly embroidered fabric [DADA]

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Notation

  • 111261

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-N73523BJ-M

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