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13 architecture terms

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frieze

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Definition:
1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed*) nap on one side.
2. (Arch.)
(a) 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.
(b) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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a man in a frieze coat dragging burning beams into another yard across the street,

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
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They have used a horizontal breadth for a frieze, and that adds wonderfully to the confusion.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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the walls were lined with a frieze of sea-scapes, interrupted only by the polished mahogany of the actual shelves.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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that supposition appeared to me to contain within it a contradiction as insoluble as if, standing before some classical frieze or a fresco representing a procession, I had believed it possible for me, the spectator, to take my place, beloved of them, among the godlike hierophants.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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