Definition of "orches" [orches]

• Plural of orchis. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But now, as she stood here in this carefully orches - trated silence, the suspicion returned with a vengeance."
• "In this way MITI orches - trated Japan's economic miracle and, simultaneously, made billionaires of the industrialists."
• "With two quick waves of his drumstick, the leader started music, but I was not prepared for what followed, for in the fin blaring passages of a robust folk dance the lean trumpeter unloosed cascade of purity such as I have rarely heard matched in any orches tra."