Dictionary Entry
frieze
frieze is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
- 3noun
A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- 4transitive verb
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz. t., 2.
- 5noun
a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
- 6noun
an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
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