frieze
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
frieze1 /friːz/
▶noun
- 1 a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration.
- 2 Architecture the part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice.
– origin C16: from Fr. frise, from med. L. frisium, var. of frigium, from L. Phrygium (opus) ‘(work) of Phrygia’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
frieze2 /friːz/
▶noun heavy, coarse woollen cloth with a nap, usually on one side only.
– origin ME: from Fr. frise, from med. L. frisia, ‘Frisian wool’.
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