frieze

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There was a shape in the mud, like a frieze -- like one of those horrors under a blanket.

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  1. noun Architecture A plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and cornice.
  2. noun Architecture A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room.
  3. noun A coarse, shaggy woolen cloth with an uncut nap.
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  1. French frise, from Medieval Latin frisium, frigium, embroidery, from Latin Phrygium (opus), Phrygian (work), from Phrygia .
  2. Middle English frise, from Old French, from Medieval Latin (pannī) frīsiī, woolen (garments), from pl. of Frīsius, Frisian.

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  1. Formerly also freeze, frize, frise (= Dutch fries= German fries = Danish frise = Swedish fris); from Old French frise, frize, French frise = Spanish Portuguese friso = Italian fregio, frieze; a particular use of Old French freze, fraise, French fraise, a ruff, = Old Spanish freso, a fringe, = Old Italian frigio, friso, fregio, modern fregio, fringe, lace, border, ornament, prob. from Middle Latin phrygium, frigium, phrysum, frisium, frisum, an embroidered border, literally Phrygian work, neuter of Phrygius, Phrygian: see Phrygian, and cf. auriphrygia, fregiatura. Otherwise supposed to be connected with frieze, frizz, frizzle, etc., or with Friese, Friesic, etc.
  2. Early modern English fryse;= French fraiser, border, = Italian fregiare, trim, border, from Middle Latin phrygiare, border, embroider; from the noun: see frieze, n.
  3. Formerly also freeze, frẹese, frize, frise; from Middle English fryse (= German fries= Swedish Danish fris) = Old French frize, frise, frisse, French frise = Portuguese Spanish frisa, from Middle Latin frisius, in full pannus frisius (modern F. drap de Frise), as if cloth made in Friesland, but there appears to be no evidence for an immediate connection except the similarity of spelling. Some etymologists derive the word from frizz, which others, on the contrary, derive from frieze, n. Hence frisado, q. v.
  4. from frieze, n. Cf. frizz, q. v.
 

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