Usually means: Decorative horizontal band on buildings.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. frieze: Merriam-Webster
  2. frieze, frieze: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frieze, frieze: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frieze: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frieze: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frieze, frieze: Wordnik
  7. frieze: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Frieze, frieze: Wiktionary
  9. frieze: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frieze: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frieze: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. frieze: Dictionary.com
  13. frieze: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. frieze: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Frieze (disambiguation), Frieze (magazine), Frieze (textile), Frieze: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Frieze: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. frieze: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. frieze: Rhymezone
  19. frieze: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. frieze: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. frieze: FreeDictionary.org
  22. frieze: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. frieze: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. frieze: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. frieze: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. frieze: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. FRIEZE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frieze: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frieze: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Frieze: Construction Glossary
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See friezelike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
verb:  (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
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.
noun:  Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
noun:  A banner with a series of pictures.
verb:  (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
noun:  A surname.

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