/ friːz; NAmE / noun
1.
a border that goes around the top of a room or building with pictures or carvings on it
2.
a long narrow picture, usually put up in a school, that children have made or that teaches them sth
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent.: from French frise , from medieval Latin frisium , variant of frigium , from Latin Phrygium (opus) (work) of Phrygia, an ancient region of west central Asia Minor.