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- Frieze - n. - 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.
- Frieze - n. - Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
- Frieze - n. - A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- Frieze - v. t. - To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
- Friezed - a. - Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
- Friezer - n. - One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
- Falding - n. - A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
- Ulster - n. - A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland.
- Encarpus - n. - An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.
- Predella - n. - The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.
- Triglyph - n. - An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.