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frieze::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | architectural ornament |
Examples of frieze
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The scalloped arches are actually a frieze, and it was originally known as such.
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Architectural detail of the frieze showing the alternating triglyphs and metope.
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A frieze in the Ostrogothic palace in Ravenna depicts an early Byzantine palace.
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Frieze Masters demonstrates the immense energy in today's historical art market.
From the guardian.co.uk
A sitting room has a hand-painted ceiling frieze and a stone mullion fireplace.
From the forbes.com
The map representing the blue-collar jobs of residents looks like a WPA frieze.
From the sfgate.com
Slave caravans seem to march across the top of every page like an endless frieze.
From the time.com
On the ceiling Penelope at the loom, in the frieze, episodes from the Odyssey.
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It consists of two arches, columns, a plain architrave and a decorated frieze.
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- An architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
- A heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
- In architecture the frieze /u02C8friu02D0z/ is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon the architrave ('main beam') and is capped by the moldings of the cornice...
- Frieze is an international contemporary art magazine.
- In the history of textiles, frieze (French: frisu00E9) is a Middle English term for a coarse woollen, plain weave cloth with a nap on one side. The nap was raised by scrubbing it to raise curls of fibre, and was not shorn after being raised, leaving an uneven surface. Panni frisi, "Frisian cloths", appear in medieval inventories and other documents...
- 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; Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in ...
- In house construction, a horizontal member connecting the top of the siding with the soffit of the cornice.
- A type of carpet that features a dense, low cut-pile surface
- Heavy coarse Irish woollen cloth with a raised nap finish on one side only formed by teaseling the cloth. The name may come from Friesland in Holland.
