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Fresco vs Frieze - What's the difference?

fresco | frieze |

As nouns the difference between fresco and frieze

is that fresco is in painting, the technique of applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster while frieze is a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

As verbs the difference between fresco and frieze

is that fresco is to paint using fresco while frieze is to make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

fresco

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) In painting, the technique of applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
  • (countable) A painting made using this technique.
  • A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
    • (Prior)

    Verb

  • To paint using fresco

    • See also

    * al fresco * ("fresco" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    frieze

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) frise, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
  • *1796 ,
  • *:[...] This dark, frieze -coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month [...]
  • *1829 ,
    • From beggar's frieze to monarch's robe,
    One common doom is pass'd;
    Sweet nature's works, the swelling globe,
    Must all burn out at last.
  • *1897 , Arthur Conan Doyle,
    • "You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.

    Verb

    (friez)
  • To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) frise, frisium, variant of frigium, ultimately from (etyl) Phrygium (opus) "(work) of Phrygia."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) 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.
  • A banner with a series of pictures.
    • The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.