noun
definition
A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
verb
definition
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
Examples of frieze in a Sentence
The man in the frieze coat was reading the broadsheet of August 31.
The frieze consisted of white marble figures in relief, affixed to a background of black Eleusinian stone.
It's also a Greek classical frieze, this picture.
The reliefs of the frieze of the cella of the Parthenon enable us to form an idea of the procession.
He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots.
Peacock feathers and curious birds decorate the frieze around the central pavilion, designed by Philip Witcomb, with green pillars and red lanterns.
Frieze is great for areas with lots of traffic (hallways, living rooms, etc) and the tufts appears twisted.
You can get Berber, textured, and Frieze carpeting as well as commercial carpeting and indoor or outdoor carpeting.
The frieze, running round the entire building, represents on its eastern side a number of deities, on its northern and southern sides Greeks fighting with Persians, and on its western side Greeks fighting with Greeks.
The arch is surmounted by a triple attic with Corinthian columns; the frieze above the keystone bears, on the north-western side, the inscription aZS' 'Aqvat, OouEw 7rpiv rats, and on the south-eastern, aZS' do' `ASptavoii Kai ou X i Ono-Los 'TO Xis.
The vestibule, in the Cosmatesque style, is supported by ten ancient columns resting upon recumbent lions, with a mosaic frieze upon them.
A frieze of lions devouring ibexes and deer, and incised with great artistic skill, runs round the neck, while the eagle crest of Lagash adorns the globular part.
The cella is decorated without with a frieze, and within with pillars and arcading.
The subject of the frieze of the Parthenon is an idealized treatment of this great procession.
The attached angleshafts of piers are found here for the first time, and their capitals are enriched, as also the frieze surmounting the walls, with other conventional patterns.
The main part of most of these screens is filled in with quatrefoils, and at the top is an open frieze formed of plate iron pierced, repousse, and enriched with engraving.
Men wear a long smock of homespun linen, beneath red or blue waistcoats with trousers of white frieze.
The laws were publicly promulgated or rehearsed; there were councils to deal with disputes and matters of local interest; popular sports such as horse-racing, running and wrestling were held; poems and tales were recited, and prizes were awarded to the best performers of every dan or art; while at the same time foreign traders came with their wares, which they exchanged for native produce, chiefly skins, wool and frieze.
Sphinxes of the usual Greek type are represented seated on each side of two doorways in an ancient frieze found by Sir Charles Fellowes at Xanthus in Lycia, and now in the British Museum.
It has the same features found in the other structures except for a line of sculptured turtles on the mouldings of the frieze.
The style of the sculptures on the frieze is quite barbaric, with archaic elements, and is probably derived from Gaul.
It has a hand carved frieze with flowing ivy leaf design on drop shoulder block.
Features include a mother-of-pearl frieze, carved screens and a copper pulpit.
The front porch has an arched opening, flanked by pilasters, supporting a frieze and cornice with circular pediment.
The ceiling had a plaster frieze around the edge and a rose in the middle around the electric light.
Artistic talents â making a frieze on a school wall or helping with sculpture.
The large ground floor windows contain a decorative art deco frieze of the most stylistic proportions.
Painted fleur-de-lys frieze runs the full length of the church above window level.
The flanking wall is relieved by projecting pilasters, and a plain frieze and cornice.
I'm almost relieved to see a common pigeon taking a breather next to a stone frieze of a giant heron.
This will contain a story and rhyme book complete with CD as well as crayons and a number frieze.
The Appeal is also creating a unique mosaic frieze to hang in the planned Center, once the building is open.
Battlemented parapet with a molded string course below which is a frieze similar to that on the north aisle.
Deep stone frieze below eaves, 2 Coade stone crocketed pinnacles survive.
Two partly blocked C14 chancel windows remain with carved quatrefoils in blank frieze on jambs and fragments of tracery.
The frieze panels feature carved floral swags flanking a tablet of carved cherubs.
The frieze panels feature bow tied swags and flank a center tablet with lidded tazza surrounded by foliate detail.
An inscription on the frieze gives the history of its construction; it was built by two brothers as a condition of inheriting the property of a third brother.
In the council chamber of the town-hall (1288-1323) is a fresco by Lippo Memmi of the Madonna enthroned of 1317, copied closely from the similar fresco (the "Majestas") by his master Simone di Martino in the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena; there is also a curious frescoed frieze of 1291, with knights in armour.
The trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze.
Soldiers were continually rushing backwards and forwards near it, and he saw two of them and a man in a frieze coat dragging burning beams into another yard across the street, while others carried bundles of hay.
Each section or frieze, they are more or less identical, comprises four tracery panels beneath a hood mold.
The present house was built in 1803 and has an attractive porch of four Tuscan columns with a triglyph frieze.
The Palazzo Fodri, now the Monte di Pieta, has a beautiful 15thcentury frieze of terra-cotta bas-reliefs, as have some other palaces in private hands.
The main object was to clear the Doric temple of Athena, built about 470 B.C. This temple is remarkable for a sculptured architrave which took the place of the ordinary frieze.
In one small chamber there was cleared a frieze, of cupids intermingled with foliage; but in this, after the first moments of illusion, it was only possible to acknowledge the hand of some unknown late and lax decorator of the school, influenced as much by Raphael as by Leonardo.
A modified form of this over-tunic with loose sleeves and made of frieze formed probably the general covering of the peasantry.
The frieze beneath the cornice, reproducing the lovers' initials and the Malatestian ensigns, is in such very low relief that it only enhances the perfection of " that music " produced by the marvellous skill of Alberti.
By the wall of China-Town a smaller group of people were gathered round a man in a frieze coat who held a paper in his hand.
While Pierre was running the few steps that separated him from the Frenchman, the tall marauder in the frieze gown was already tearing from her neck the necklace the young Armenian was wearing, and the young woman, clutching at her neck, screamed piercingly.