frieze

See also: Frieze

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: frees, freeze

Etymology 1

From Middle French frise, from friser (“to curl”).

Noun

frieze (countable and uncountable, plural friezes)

1. 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.

Translations

kind of coarse cloth

• Bulgarian: аба (bg) f (aba), шаяк (bg) m (šajak)
• Finnish: friisi (fi), friisikangas
• French: frise (fr) m, bure (fr) f
• German: Fries (de) m, Friese (de) f
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• Italian: rascia f
• Portuguese: baeta (pt) f
• Russian: бо́брик (ru) m (bóbrik)
• Swedish: fris (sv) c

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

Etymology 2

From Middle French frise, (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  frisium, variant of frigium, ultimately from Latin Phrygium (opus) "(work) of Phrygia."

Noun

frieze (plural friezes)

1. (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.
2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
3. A banner with a series of pictures.

   The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.

Translations

architecture: space between architrave and cornice

• Albanian: frizë
• Arabic: إِفْرِيز m (ʔifrīz)
• Armenian: ծոփոր (hy) (copʻor), գօտի (gōti)
• Azerbaijani: friz
• Basque: friso
• Belarusian: фрыз m (fryz)
• Bulgarian: фриз m (friz)
• Catalan: fris (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腰線／腰线 (yāoxiàn)

• Czech: vlys (cs) m
• Danish: frise c
• Dutch: fries (nl) n
• Esperanto: friso (eo)
• Estonian: friis
• Finnish: friisi (fi)
• French: frise (fr) f
• Galician: friso m
• Georgian: ფრიზი (prizi)
• German: Fries (de) m
• Greek: ζωφόρος (el) f (zofóros)
• Hebrew: אפריז m (efríz)
• Hungarian: fríz (hu)
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• Ido: friso (io)
• Italian: fregio (it) m
• Japanese: フリーズ (ja) (furīzu)
• Korean: 프리즈 (peurijeu)
• Latvian: frīze f
• Lithuanian: frizas m
• Macedonian: фриз m (friz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frise m

• Persian: حاشیه زینتی (hâshiye zînye)
• Polish: fryz m
• Portuguese: friso (pt) m
• Romanian: friză (ro) f
• Russian: фриз (ru) m (friz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фриз m

  Roman: friz (sh) m

• Slovak: vlys m
• Slovene: friz (sl) m
• Spanish: friso (es) m
• Swedish: fris (sv) c
• Turkish: friz (tr)
• Ukrainian: фриз m (fryz)

sculptured or richly ornamented band

• Bulgarian: фриз m (friz)
• Catalan: fris (ca) m
• Finnish: friisi (fi)
• French: frise (fr) m
• German: Fries (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ζωοφόρος (el) f (zoofóros)
• Italian: fregio (it) m
• Polish: fryz m
• Russian: фриз (ru) m (friz), бордю́р (ru) m (bordjúr)
• Spanish: friso (es) m

Verb

1. (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *friāsa, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną.

Verb

frieze

1. to freeze

Inflection

Strong class 2
infinitive	frieze
3rd singular past	frear
past participle	ferzen
infinitive	frieze
long infinitive	friezen
gerund	friezen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	fries	frear
2nd singular	friest	freart
3rd singular	friest	frear
plural	frieze	frearen
imperative	fries
participles	friezend	ferzen

Further reading

• “frieze”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011