(n.) 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.
(n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
(v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you think London gets too crowded with events during the Frieze fair, stay away from Miami: this year there were at least 17 art fairs happening simultaneously.
(2) ( eyzies.monuments-nationaux.fr ; 00 33 5530 68600 ) Abri de Cap Blanc: Another must, Cap Blanc is made up of series of bas-reliefs created by artists who took advantage of the topography of the rock wall to sculpt a frieze of horses of startling impact.
(3) The Scream stands alone in our imaginations, but when you relate it to other scenes in the Frieze of Life, its meaning becomes clearer.
(4) Take the 1970 Dodge Challenger he has rebuilt for Frieze, or its 1969 cousin, the Charger, two of which he is working on in the Body Shop.
(5) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(6) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(7) Designed by Pericles's master sculptor, Phidias, the marbles were part of a monumental frieze that adorned the Parthenon.
(8) When you look at his classic works in Oslo's National Gallery and the Munch Museum, you can follow them, not as a narrative exactly, but as a spiritual autobiography he called the Frieze of Life.
(9) Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece , newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
(10) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian October's Frieze is now firmly marked on fashion's annual calendar , with the art world's style a great tonic after four weeks of front rows eyeing up each other's outfits.
(11) Jennifer Higgie, London editor of contemporary art magazine Frieze , says the ambition of the project, especially during tough economic times, should be applauded.
(12) The Frieze piece notches up several firsts for Prince: it's his first fully working car-as-artwork, and his first public commission for a British audience.
(13) But for the most part the book is a kind of corybantic frieze of all-too-human mankind, its characters parading unforgettably past us, insinuating themselves permanently into our imaginations, populating our mental landscapes.
(14) The hysteria of the Habsburg empire on the verge of breaking up becomes ecstasy in Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, with its savage King Kong monkey-face manifesting the moronic power of irrational forces.
(15) Prince's Frieze installation bears many of the hallmarks of his art over the past three decades.
(16) For nearly 40 years Athens has argued that the sculptures – part of a giant frieze depicting the Panathenaic procession, which adorned the Parthenon until their removal by Lord Elgin, England’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire – should be “reunited” with surviving pieces in Athens in the name of respect for a monument of universal importance.
(17) Viv’s book keeps getting reprinted because she works so hard at it that way,” Lee Brackstone says: she’s recently spoken at the Frieze Art Fair and the ICA, and is lecturing at Goldsmiths College later this month.
(18) Hightlights of the Vézère valley Grotte de Rouffignac: The cavern train carries you past friezes of woolly rhinos, superbly rendered in black, and engravings of mammoths, gouged into soft clay-limestone walls by artists who used their fingers.
(19) A clue can be found in the first issue, from September 1991, of the contemporary art magazine Frieze.
(20) Athens wants nothing else back – including that other pillaged masterpiece, the Bassae frieze, which in high relief depicts the Greeks fighting the Amazons and is also on display at the British Museum, but on account of staff shortages rarely available for viewing.
Rug
Definition:
(a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
(a.) A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.
(a.) A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
(v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(3) The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn’t fit for the 21st century.
(4) Many survivors use it to get the accommodations needed to stay in school, while others used it to hold their institutions accountable for sweeping sexual assault under the rug.” More than two dozen states are suing the Obama administration over its guidance on transgender students in an effort that is overwhelmingly led by Republican secretaries of state.
(5) As the president of Russia's Kalmykia republic from 1993 to 2010, Ilyumzhinov undoubtedly has close ties to the Kremlin, and a woven rug featuring Putin's face hangs in his office.
(6) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
(7) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
(8) And reporting by the Observer reveals the extent to which al-Qaida has integrated itself with powerful tribes that control large swaths of Yemen's rugged east and parts of its south.
(9) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(10) Laminin and its E1-4 and E8 fragments are able to activate the ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity of both BCS-TC2 and Rugli cells.
(11) Pictures of the young Depardieu in a good light suggest a rugged, brooding, if not classically good-looking man with a squared chin and mop of blonde hair.
(12) In the presence of glucose oxidase and trien this polymer forms rugged, cross-linked, electroactive films on the surface of electrodes, thereby eliminating the requirement for a membrane for containing the enzyme and redox couple.
(13) The tone was set in the second minute when Ben Westwood, Warrington's notoriously rugged forward, left the Wigan stand-off Blake Green on the ground needing lengthy treatment.
(14) The simple design and rugged construction permit the incorporation of the apparatus into many manual or personal computer controlled oxygen consumption systems.
(15) Both offer lodges and campsites, but keep in mind that only a very small fraction of these remote and rugged parks are accessible by road.
(16) "When a similar report was released in 2009, the Administration largely swept it under the rug.
(17) La Posada has undergone a $12m renovation, transforming it into a magical place with handmade Mexican tin and tile mirrors, six-foot cast iron tubs, hand woven Zapotec rugs, and hand-painted furniture and tile murals.
(18) These assays have proven to be accurate, precise, reproducible, and rugged during clinical sample analyses.
(19) And cutting support now would take demand out of the economy, pull the rug from under the recovery, and delay our return to sustained growth.
(20) Chelsea had laboured at times without him in that first period, Begovic denying them reward from an urgent opening and Stoke rugged and organised until self-destructing with half-time in sight.