frieze

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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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  • All these are 'concept' designs for the bronze frieze which is to be installed in the station. —  Home | Mail Online
  • Day, however, claimed the frieze was a deliberate contrast to the "ideal" of the towering lovers embracing above. —  Covenant Zone
  • This frieze is ascribed to the sixth century B.C., and is not much later than our pediments For the Hydra pediment, there exists a still closer parallel in an archaic Corinthian amphora, published by Gerhard. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • The fragments of the narrow frieze which bordered the upper part of the frieze are marked from 50 to 68. —  How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
  • The base is a rude form of the Attic base; and we have found several fragments of the capital, or impost, of the smaller pilasters, from, which the arches sprang, but I have not been so fortunate as to recognise any of the larger capitals, and but few fragments of the cornices, and but one piece that I can identify as the frieze 1ft. —  The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath
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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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