Sentence:  This word ["orphrey"] is used for a band or border of rich work, generally of gold or silver texture, which is sewed on to church vestments and furniture. All copes have an <WSD>orphrey</WSD>, or border, on the straight edge. On chasubles the <WSD>Orphrey</WSD> at present forms a cross behind, and falls in a straight line, in front of the vestment. Antiently the <WSD>Orphreys</WSD> were the same behind and before, like a Pallium, as may be seen in all monuments of the middle ages. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc. (from 15th c.)