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Foliage :: Foliage (n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc..

Rug :: Rug (a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments..

Frize :: Frize (n.) See 1st Frieze.

Frieze :: Frieze (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

Pulvinated :: Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze..

Antefix :: Antefix (n.) An ornament fixed upon a frieze.

Zoophorous :: Zoophorous (n.) The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.

Metope :: Metope (n.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature..

Falding :: Falding (n.) A frieze or rough-napped cloth.

Freeze :: Freeze (n.) A frieze.

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Ulster :: Ulster (n.) A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland..

Frieze :: Frieze (n.) 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..

Frieze :: Frieze (n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column..

Friezed :: Friezed (a.) Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2..

Taenia :: Taenia (n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave..

Friezer :: Friezer (n.) One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes..

Encarpus :: Encarpus (n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc..

Patera :: Patera (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like..

Triglyph :: Triglyph (n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature..

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