frieze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Architecture A plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and cornice.
2. n. Architecture A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room.
3. n. A coarse, shaggy woolen cloth with an uncut nap.
4. n. A dense, low-pile surface, as in carpeting, resembling such cloth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In architecture, that part of an entablature which is between the architrave and the cornice; also, any longitudinal decorative feature or band of extended length, occupying a position, in architecture or decoration, more or less similar to that of the frieze in an entablature. The frieze in its simplest form is flat and plain; but in the Doric style it is divided into triglyphs and metopes, and in other styles, and even in the Doric when not over columns, it frequently bears a continuous series of figures sculptured in relief, as the Panathenaic frieze around the cella of the Parthenon. Such a frieze is sometimes called a zophoros. See entablature, and cuts under column and gigantomachy.
2. To border; embroider; ornament the edge of.
3. To furnish with a frieze.
4. n. A thick and warm woolen cloth used for rough outer garments since the fourteenth century. The modern material of this name is covered with a nap forming little tufts, and is especially used in Ireland, whence it is exported for overcoating.
5. n. In leather manufacturing, an imperfection in leather, sometimes appearing in the preparatory processes of tanning. It consists in excessive tenderness of the grain of the hide, which appears as if it had been scraped off.
6. Made of the napped or shaggy cloth called frieze.
7. To form a nap on, as cloth, like the nap of frieze; furnish with a nap; frizzle; curl: used especially in the past participle: as, a friezed stuff or garment.

Wiktionary

1. n. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
2. v. transitive To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
3. n. 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.
4. n. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
5. n. A banner with a series of pictures.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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. n. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of column.
3. n. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
4. v. To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See friz, v. t., 2.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
2. n. a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap