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What does frieze mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word frieze? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
Noun
  1. (architecture) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
  2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
  3. A banner with a series of pictures.
Verb
  1. (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
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