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frieze noun1. [fri:z] LME.
[French frise, from medieval Latin = Frisian (wool). Cf. FRIEZE verb1.]
A kind of coarse woollen cloth with a nap, usually on one side only, orig. of Welsh, now esp. of Irish manufacture. LME.
J. Dyer Frize of Cambria. F. O'Brien Your heavy great-coat of Galway frieze.
Bruising or abrasion of the grain in leather. Orig. in frieze-leather, frizzed leather. L16.
Down on a plant; a tuft of this. M-L17.
friezy adjective (a) dressed in frieze; (b) resembling frieze: M19.