Frieze



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 在墙顶与天花板间起装饰作用的) 横条, 饰带
• ［英］ ( 在墙顶与天花板间起装饰作用的) 横条, 饰带 ( a decoration or series of decorations forming an ornamental band around a room, mantel, etc.)
• ［记］ 和freeze ( 冰冻) 一起记

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English frise, from Anglo-French, from Middle Dutch vriese
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface
• 2. a pile surface of uncut loops or of patterned cut and uncut loops

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle French frise, perhaps from Medieval Latin phrygium, frisium embroidered cloth, from Latin phrygium, from neuter of Phrygius Phrygian, from Phrygia
• Date: 1563
• 1. the part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice
• 2. a sculptured or richly ornamented band (as on a building or piece of furniture)
• 3. a band, line, or series suggesting a frieze <a constant frieze of visitors wound its way around the…ruins — Mollie Panter-Downes>
• ? friezelike adjective

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