FRIEZE, noun freez. [Gr. to shiver or tremble with fear, whose elements are frg or frk.] 1. Properly, the nap on woolen cloth; hence, a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff, with a nap on one side. 2. In architecture, that part of the entablature of a column which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, usually enriched with figures of animals or other ornaments of sculpture, whence its name. Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.
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