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Frieze vs Friezer - What's the difference?

frieze | friezer |

As nouns the difference between frieze and friezer

is that frieze is a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side or frieze can be (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 while friezer is one who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.

As a verb frieze

is to make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

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.

    friezer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
  • (Webster 1913)