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frieze

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1. frieze - Noun

2. frieze - Verb

3. Frieze - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. Edvard Munch

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. Edvard Munch

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch

Abroad though, American fashion’s Proenza Schouler will go to the Paris fashion week in March this year and the premium 1774 collection will be at the Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles with Matchesfashion, next month. Source: Internet

Above this on the attic frieze are inscribed the names of the 48 states present at the time of the Memorial's dedication. Source: Internet

A Doric frieze at the top of the walls of the naos consisted of metopes depicting people, with the heads and naked parts of the women made of Parian marble and the rest from local stone. Source: Internet

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