frieze

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: frees, freeze

From Middle French frise, from friser (“to curl”).

frieze (countable and uncountable, plural friezes)

1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796

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

   • 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar

     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.

   • 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home

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

frieze (third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed)

1. (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

From Middle French frise, Medieval Latin frisium, variant of frigium, ultimately from Latin Phrygium (opus) "(work) of Phrygia."

frieze (plural friezes)

1. (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.
2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
3. A banner with a series of pictures.

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

frieze (third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed)

1. (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.

From Old Frisian *friāsa, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną.

frieze

1. to freeze

• “frieze”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011