FRIEZE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English frise, from Anglo-French, from Middle Dutch vriese Date: 15th century a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface, 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 the part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice, a sculptured or richly ornamented band (as on a building or piece of furniture), a band, line, or series suggesting a ~ , ~like adjective