Definition of "orage" [orage]

• A storm; a tempest. (noun)
• In organ-building, a stop constructed so as to produce a noise in imitation of the sound of a storm. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "One of the combinations to the Pedal organ is designated, "Effets d'orage" -- a thunder stop."
• "Wind, tempest, and orage assailed them so strongly that they weened to have perished without remedy, the holy virgin lift up her hands to heaven requiring help of our Lord, and anon the tempest ceased."
• "The provost entered into a ship with thirty-four men for to pass an arm of the sea; anon came a great orage and a tempest, which drowned the provost and all his company in the sea, and the sea threw their bodies to the rivage, and wild beasts came thither and ate them."