562. _orfrays_, gold embroidered work, cloth-of-gold; cf. ll. 869, 1076.
'The golden bands fastened to, or embroidered on chasubles, copes, and
vestments ... Fringes or laces appended to the garments, as well as the
embroidered work upon them, were so termed'; Fairholt, Costume in England.
See Way's note on _Orfrey_ in the Prompt. Parvulorum. Cotgrave has:
'_Orfrais_, m. Broad welts, or gards of gold or silver imbroidery laid on
Copes, and other Church-vestments'; &c. There is a long note upon it, with
quotations, in Thynne's Animadversions on Speght's Chaucer, ed. Furnivall,
pp. 33-35; he says it is 'frised or perled cloothe of gold,' or 'a weued
clothe of gold.' Here it seems to mean a gold-embroidered band, worn as a
chaplet.
568. _tressour_; so spelt in Gawain and the Grene Knight, 1739, where a
lady is described as having precious stones, in clusters of twenty, 'trased
aboute hir _tressour_.' Roquefort also gives the O. F. forms _tressour_,
_tressoir_, _tresson_, 'ornement de tête pour les femmes, ruban pour
attacher les cheveux.' It differs from the heraldic term _tressure_ (Lat.
_tricatura_) in the form of the suffix. _Tressour_ can rime with _mirrour_,
whilst _tressure_ (strictly) cannot do so. Her hair was entwined with gilt
ribbons or threads.