Definitions for frieze

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Spelling: [freez]

IPA: /friz/

Frieze is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in frieze (eefirz).

Definitions for frieze

noun

1. Architecture. the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief. any decorative band on an outside wall, broader than a stringcourse and bearing lettering, sculpture, etc.
2. any decorative band at the top or beneath the cornice of an interior wall, a piece of furniture, etc.
3. Furniture. skirt (def 6b).
4. a heavy, napped woolen cloth for coats.

Origin of frieze

1555-65; Middle French frise, perhaps Medieval Latin phrygium, frigium, frisium embroidered cloth, embroidery, Latin Phrygium, neuter of Phrygius Phrygian

Examples for frieze

From a 48 portraits of young men and women to a Jeff Koons lobster, the must-see art at frieze London, which opens on Thursday.

So does the Parthenon frieze depict virgin sacrifice, and was it built over the tomb of these maidens of myth?

Get from a wall-paper dealer a sample of a frieze for a papered room.

The entablature is a positive triumph in cornice, frieze and architrave.

The cornice, of which the frieze is adorned with eight masks, rests on corbels.

This notion of fashion as a kind of wearable narrative is in evidence at industry gatherings like frieze and Art Basel.

Since then, it has been screened at such venues as the British Film Institute, Southbank London (2008), frieze Art Fair (2010).

It did not get made due to lack of financing but then frieze went and did it, which is annoying!

On the other hand, the frieze has no triglyphs, and but rarely sculpture.

Triglyph, the channelled feature in the frieze of the Doric order.