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frieze

In architecture and the decorative arts, an ornamental, horizontal band on a building, furniture, pottery, or other decorated work. In architecture, it is usually placed along the top of a wall, near or at ceiling height. In classical architecture, it is part of the entablature (architrave, frieze, and cornice). The frieze forms the division, usually sculpted, between the architrave (the beam over a series of columns) and the cornice (the moulding at the edge of a ceiling).

Friezes were particularly popular in ancient Greek architecture and art.
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It contained one of the precious stockings; and half opening it, I revealed to Sylvia's astonished eyes the cunning little frieze of Bacchus and Ariadne, followed by a troop of Satyrs and Bacchantes, which the artist had designed to encircle one of the white columns of that little marble temple which sat before me.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Soldiers were continually rushing backwards and forwards near it, and he saw two of them and a man in a frieze coat dragging burning beams into another yard across the street, while others carried bundles of hay.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
"That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard," said a man in a frieze overcoat, shutting the door with a bang.
Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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