Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

frieze

1. frieze \'fre-z or (compare FRISE`) fre--'za-\ n [ME frise, fr. MF, fr. 
   MD vriese] 1: a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough 
   surface  2: a pile surface of uncut loops or of patterned cut and uncut 
   loops 
2. frieze \'fre-z\ n [MF, perh. fr. ML phrygium, frisium embroidered cloth, 
   fr. L phr]ygium, fr. neut. of Phrygius Phrygian, fr. Phrygia 1: the part of 
   an entablature between the architrave and the cornice  2: a sculptured or 
   richly ornamented band (as on a building)