frieze
IPA: frˈiz
noun
- A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- (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.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
- A banner with a series of pictures.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
- (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
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Examples of "frieze" in Sentences
- The frieze board runs below the eaves.
- The statue is in the middle of a frieze.
- The total length of the frieze is around.
- The subject of the frieze is the suovetaurilia.
- The frieze collapsed with the temple in ancient times.
- The frieze comes without the Doric triglyph and metope.
- The north frieze depicts the story of the Book of Mormon.
- These are of an excellent workmanship superior to that of the frieze.
- The cornice of the temple supported a brightly coloured stucco frieze.
- The portico is topped with a frieze depicting the construction of the temple.
- It was a bold move to bring back the 'frieze' - how do you think people will go with it?
- It is small, but of exquisite proportions, and now perfect, with the exception of a portion of the frieze, which is in the British Museum.
- The upper rows of stones beneath the roof and above the columns were also carved, and continuous carvings (called a frieze) ran around the top of the temple wall on the outside.
- Built of concrete and steel and completed in a dizzying 284 days, it featured luxurious touches, most notably a 15-foot copper facade known as a frieze that adorned much of the third deck.
- Nor did his presence owe anything to his dress, which was of that long-haired coarse woollen stuff they called frieze, worn, probably, by not another nobleman in the country, and regarded as fitter for a yeoman.
- Also in frieze, Rebecca Warren on Far From Heaven, "artificial and exultant, but so cruelly truthful it made me feel sick and afraid for three days," two by Bu�uel, two by Bresson, two more by David Lynch and so on - a fine list.
- The frieze is a visual narrative which tells the story of the Birth of Athena (and, in other sections, the battle between Athena and Poseidon for spiritual control of the city -- not to offend any followers of Poseidon who may be hurt by the memory of their loss).
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