frieze

Meanings

1. A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

1. To make a nap on (cloth); to frizz.

1. 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.
2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or in rich pieces of furniture.
3. A banner with a series of pictures.

1. To put a frieze on.

1. A surname.

Etymology

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”)..