frise

Meaning

1. frieze
2. border

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʁiz/

Etymology

Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a transferred sense.

Sentences

La frise du Parthénon est ornée de bas-reliefs.

The frieze of the Parthenon is decorated with bas-reliefs.