FRIEZE
\fɹˈiːz], \fɹˈiːz], \f_ɹ_ˈiː_z]\
Definitions of FRIEZE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
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A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
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To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
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A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
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To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
By Noah Webster.
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The part of an entablature, or wall supported by columns, below the cornice and above the architrave: usually ornamented with sculpture, etc.; an ornamental band around a wall, just below the ceiling; a coarse woolen cloth with a rough shaggy nap on one side.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A coarse woollen cloth with a nap on one side.
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(arch.) The part of the entablature of a column between the architrave and cornice, often ornamented with figures.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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