Frieze

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfriːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: frees, freeze

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

Full definition of frieze

Noun

1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
• 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,... This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month ...
• 1829, , 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, "You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.

Verb

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

From Middle French frise, Medieval Latin frisium, variant of frigium, ultimately from Latin Phrygium (opus) "(work) of Phrygia."

Noun

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.