frise

Meaning

1. (feminine) frieze
2. (feminine) border

Concepts

frieze

border

baize

entablature

Synonyms

bure

bayette

Translations

Fries

fregio

fris

friso

Bühnenhimmel

baeta

friz

Flausch

fries

Flause

Zierstreifen

duvar süsü

drapet

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʁiz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: frise

In summary

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.