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BNC: 15973 COCA: 19969

frieze

1 of 2

noun (1)

1
: a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface
2
: a pile surface of uncut loops or of patterned cut and uncut loops

frieze

2 of 2

noun (2)

1
: the part of an entablature between the architrave (see architrave sense 1) and the cornice (see cornice entry 1 sense 1)
2
: a sculptured or richly ornamented band (as on a building or piece of furniture)
3
: a band, line, or series suggesting a frieze
a constant frieze of visitors wound its way around the … ruins Mollie Panter-Downes
friezelike adjective

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Frieze and Clothing

Both of the frieze homographs derive from French, but each entered that language through a different channel. The woolen homograph is from the Middle Dutch word vriese, which also refers to coarse wool. The other homograph of frieze is from the Latin word frisium, meaning "embroidered cloth." That word evolved from phrygium and Phrygia, the name of an ancient country of Asia Minor whose people excelled in metalwork, wood carving, and (unsurprisingly) embroidery. That embroidery lineage influenced the use of frieze for the middle division of an entablature, which commonly has a decorated surface resembling embroidered cloth.

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle English frise, from Anglo-French, from Middle Dutch vriese

Noun (2)

Middle French frise, perhaps from Medieval Latin phrygium, frisium embroidered cloth, from Latin phrygium, from neuter of Phrygius Phrygian, from Phrygia

First Known Use

Noun (1)

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of frieze was in the 15th century

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