frieze
noun/friːz/
/friːz/
- a border that goes around the top of a room or building with pictures or carvings on itTopics Houses and homesc2, Artc2
- a long narrow picture, usually put up in a school, that children have made or that teaches them something
- The children made a frieze showing traders and their camels crossing the desert.
Word Originmid 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.
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