frieze
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle French frise, from friser (“to curl”).
Noun [edit]
frieze (plural friezes)
- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
- [...] This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month [...]
- 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar
- From beggar's frieze to monarch's robe,
- One common doom is pass'd;
- Sweet nature's works, the swelling globe,
- Must all burn out at last.
- 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home
- "You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
Translations [edit]
A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side
Verb [edit]
frieze (third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed)
- (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle French frise, ultimately from Latin Phrygium.
Noun [edit]
frieze (plural friezes)
- (architecture) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
- A banner with a series of pictures.
- The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.
