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countable and uncountable, plural friezes
A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. quotations examples
[I]f a plaine fellow well and cleanely apparelled, either in home-ſpun ruſſet or freeze (as the ſeaſon requires) with a five pouch at his girdle, happen to appeare in his ruſticall likenes: there is a Cozen ſaies one, At which word out flies the Taker, and thus giues the onſet vpon my olde Pennyfather.
1608, [Thomas Dekker], “Of Barnards Law”, in The Belman of London. […], London: […] [Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, signature F, verso
This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month […]
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
From beggar's frieze to monarch's robe, / One common doom is pass'd; / Sweet nature's works, the swelling globe, / Must all burn out at last.
1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar
"You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.
1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home
third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed
(transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. examples
plural friezes
(architecture) 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. examples
Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. examples
A banner with a series of pictures. examples
(transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on. examples