Frieze

/ˈfɹiːz/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

[I]f a plaine fellow well and cleanely apparelled, either in home-ſpun ruſſet or freeze (as the ſeaſon requires) with a five pouch at his girdle, happen to appeare in his ruſticall likenes: there is a Cozen ſaies one, At which word out flies the Taker, and thus giues the onſet vpon my olde Pennyfather.

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

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.

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

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

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Word Forms

• friezes
• freeze
• friezing
• friezed

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