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

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

Freeze :: Freeze (n.) A frieze.

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Duffel :: Duffel (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze..

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

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

Ulster :: Ulster (n.) A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland..

Frieze :: Frieze (v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2..

Cogware :: Cogware (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century..

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

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

Overfrieze :: Overfrieze (v. t.) To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze..

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

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