ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Frieze

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈfɹiːz/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Frieze is a noun meaning A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

Meaning

A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

(transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to frizz.
(by extension) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or in rich pieces of furniture.
A banner with a series of pictures.
(transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
(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.

This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month […]

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

"You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.

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.

Related dictionary entries include freeze, frize, friezing, falding, frizzer, frizette.

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