Late Middle English, from French and Middle French frise, probably from Medieval Latin Frisia (“Frisian (wool)”) due to import via Northern ships. Or, from French friser (“to curl”)..
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
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. 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
"You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket. 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home:
This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month […] 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796:
[I]f a plaine fellow well and cleanely apparelled, either in home-ſpun ruſſet or freeze (as the ſeaſon requires) with a five pouch at his girdle, happen to appeare in his ruſticall likenes: there is a Cozen ſaies one, At which word out flies the Taker, and thus giues the onſet vpon my olde Pennyfather. 1608, [Thomas Dekker], “Of Barnards Law”, in The Belman of London. […], London: […] [Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, signature F, verso:
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Translations (15)
de Fries (kind of coarse cloth) · mk а́ба (kind of coarse cloth) · fr bure (kind of coarse cloth) · it rascia (kind of coarse cloth) · mk ша́јак (kind of coarse cloth) · ru бо́брик (kind of coarse cloth) · fr frise (kind of coarse cloth) · sv fris (kind of coarse cloth) · de Friese (kind of coarse cloth) · fi friisikangas (kind of coarse cloth) · pt baeta (kind of coarse cloth) · fi friisi (kind of coarse cloth) · bg аба (kind of coarse cloth) · bg шаяк (kind of coarse cloth) · pl fryza (kind of coarse cloth)
Late Middle English, from French and Middle French frise, probably from Medieval Latin Frisia (“Frisian (wool)”) due to import via Northern ships. Or, from French friser (“to curl”)..
From French and Middle French frise f, derived from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, frigium, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus Phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “work of Phrygia”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term above in a transferred sense.
Meanings
The portion of an architectural entablature situated between the architrave and the cornice, consisting of a flat surface that may be continuous or articulated by triglyphs and is often decorated with sculptural figures and ornamental details.
(broadly) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or in rich pieces of furniture.
The narrative frieze, which was derived from the scenes on steles and seals, became the most important aspect of Assyrian art. 1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 17, page 205:
A banner with a series of pictures.
The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.
ro friză (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ru фриз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · it fregio (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · it fregio (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · mk фриз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · es friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · sv fris (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · az friz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ru бордю́р (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · ca fris (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · sq frizë (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ko 프리즈 (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · el ζωφόρος (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · el ζωοφόρος (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · fi friisi (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · bg фриз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ca fris (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · gl friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · fa حاشیه زینتی (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · da frise (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · io friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · uk фриз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ar إِفْرِيز (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · pl fryz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · fi friisi (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · sh фриз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ru фриз (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · sl friz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · de Fries (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · lt frizas (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · cmn 腰線 /腰线 (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · pl fryz (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · ka ფრიზი (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · sk vlys (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · hy ծոփոր (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · nb frise (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · sh friz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · eo friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · pt friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · hy ֆրիզ (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · eu friso (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · fr frise (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · hu fríz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · ja フリーズ (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · lv frīze (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · la zoophorus (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · cs vlys (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · be фрыз (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · de Fries (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · he אפריז (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · nl fries (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · tr friz (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · fr frise (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · tr friz (architecture: space between architrave and cornice) · es friso (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · bg фриз (sculptured or richly ornamented band) · et friis (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
From French and Middle French frise f, derived from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, frigium, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus Phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “work of Phrygia”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term above in a transferred sense.