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say it: freez
frieze is a noun meaning "an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice". It is pronounced /ˈfɹiz/ — freez. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frieze come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.