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Frize vs Frieze - What's the difference?

frize | frieze |

In architecture terms the difference between frize and frieze

is that frize is archaic form of lang=en while frieze 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.

As a verb frieze is

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

frize

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture)
  • (Webster 1913)

    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.