At the top of the building there is a frieze of carved ribbons.
Source: tatoeba (8977865)
Frieze
//ˈfɹiːz//
Synonyms for "frieze" (60 found)
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16 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 43 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- frizë noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Arabic
1 entries- إِفْرِيز noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Armenian
2 entries- ծոփոր noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- ֆրիզ noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- friz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Basque
1 entries- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Belarusian
1 entries- фрыз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Bulgarian
4 entries- аба noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- фриз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- фриз noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- шаяк noun (kind of coarse cloth)
Catalan
2 entries- fris noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- fris noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 腰線 /腰线 noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Czech
1 entries- vlys noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Danish
1 entries- frise noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Dutch
1 entries- fries noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Esperanto
1 entries- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Estonian
1 entries- friis noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Finnish
4 entries- friisi noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- friisi noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- friisi noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- friisikangas noun (kind of coarse cloth)
French
4 entries- bure noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- frise noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- frise noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- frise noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Galician
1 entries- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Georgian
1 entries- ფრიზი noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
German
4 entries- Fries noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- Fries noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- Fries noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- Friese noun (kind of coarse cloth)
Greek
2 entries- ζωοφόρος noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- ζωφόρος noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Hebrew
1 entries- אפריז noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Hungarian
1 entries- fríz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Ido
1 entries- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Italian
3 entries- fregio noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- fregio noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- rascia noun (kind of coarse cloth)
Japanese
1 entries- フリーズ noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Korean
1 entries- 프리즈 noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Latin
1 entries- zoophorus noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Latvian
1 entries- frīze noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Lithuanian
1 entries- frizas noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Macedonian
3 entries- а́ба noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- фриз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- ша́јак noun (kind of coarse cloth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- frise noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Persian
1 entries- حاشیه زینتی noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Polish
2 entries- fryz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- fryz noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Portuguese
2 entries- baeta noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Romanian
1 entries- friză noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Russian
4 entries- бо́брик noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- бордю́р noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
- фриз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- фриз noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- friz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- фриз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Slovak
1 entries- vlys noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Slovene
1 entries- friz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Spanish
2 entries- friso noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- friso noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Swedish
2 entries- fris noun (kind of coarse cloth)
- fris noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Turkish
2 entries- friz noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
- friz noun (sculptured or richly ornamented band)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фриз noun (architecture: space between architrave and cornice)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The frieze included a cherub and a heart.
Source: tatoeba (8977943)
He modeled caryatids for the Palais de la Bourse at Brussels; for the Palais des Académies he made a frieze representing children and the attributes of the arts and sciences; he was charged also with the execution of decorative pieces for different municipal buildings of the city of Antwerp.
Source: tatoeba (11660372)
[I]f a plaine fellow well and cleanely apparelled, either in home-ſpun ruſſet or freeze (as the ſeaſon requires) with a five pouch at his girdle, happen to appeare in his ruſticall likenes: there is a Cozen ſaies one, At which word out flies the Taker, and thus giues the onſet vpon my olde Pennyfather.
Source: wiktionary
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