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frieze(1) (iou)



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.

Cromwellian (iou)



Cromwellian adjective & noun. M17.
[from Cromwell (see below) + -IAN.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English soldier, statesman, and Puritan leader of the Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War and Lord Protector 1653-8. M17.
Designating a Cromwell chair. E20.
b. noun. A supporter of Cromwell; one of the English settlers in Ireland following Cromwell's defeat of the Irish and the Act of Settlement of 1652; a descendant of such a settler. L17.