Definition of Frize

1. n. See 1st Frieze.

Definition of Frize

1. Noun. (architecture) (archaic form of frieze) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frize

1. a frieze [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frize

frivoling
frivolism
frivolisms
frivolities
frivolity
frivolled
frivoller
frivollers
frivolling
frivolous
frivolously
frivolousness
frivolousnesses
frivols
friz
frize (current term)
frized
frizel
frizels
frizer
frizers
frizes
frizette
frizettes
frizing
frizz
frizzed
frizzens
frizzer

Literary usage of Frize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova, And, Two Memoirs Read to the by Ennio Quirino Visconti, Antonio Canova (1816)
"NORTHERN frize.* The fragments of this frize, which Stuart has published,^ show us that the train of oxen, led as victims, began, on this side, ..."

2. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"... with his frize honnet, and gives them al to know that this invective was set foorth, made and printed ahove fortie yeeres agoe, and heing then called a ..."

3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"Fuller speaks of frize as a coarse kind of cloth, manufactured in Wales. ... It is clear there were both coarse and fine frize, and it is the former that is ..."

4. The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature (1835)
"Cloth of gold neither seems to elate, nor cloth of frize to depress him—according to the beautiful motto which formed the modest imprese of the shield worn ..."

5. The Parish: Its Powers and Obligations at Law, as Regards the Welfare of by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1857)
"31s 6d Item bought of Allin Bolwell in gray frize 4 yards and three ... Mannings in frize — 3 yd, & half Item to Roger Winsloe in frize — 3 ydl Item to ..."

6. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1857)
"Fuller speaks of frize as a coarse kind of cloth, manufactured in Wales, ... It is clear there were both coarse and fine frize, and it is the former that is ..."

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