frieze.

1. A horizontal band on a wall or building, often decorated with relief carving or other ornament.

2. A rough-surfaced cloth, traditionally heavy wool with a raised nap.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• sculpted frieze
• ornamental frieze
• frieze of figures

On the page

A frieze of running horses circled the hall.

The sculpted frieze was easier to see once the scaffolding came down.

Blue tiles formed a frieze beneath the library windows.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular frieze; plural friezes; fabric use is usually a mass noun. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.