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Classical architecture feature
Answer for the clue "Classical architecture feature ", 6 letters:
frieze
Alternative clues for the word frieze
- Architectural adornment
- Sculptured band between architrave and cornice
- Decorative band on wall
- An architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
- Horizontal band on a wall
- Band beneath the cornice
- Architectural element often decorated with bas-reliefs
Word definitions for frieze in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ De Fondutis was also responsible for the brick frieze with cherubs in the sacristy. ▪ Having dragged it over, she stood on it with care, and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . ▪ Inside the Odeon, on both sides ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of coarse woolen cloth with a nap on one side, late 14c., from Old French frise , probably ultimately from a German or Dutch word meaning "to curl" and related to frizzle .
Usage examples of frieze.
The balustrade was ornamented with repetitive cusped lancets and a trefoil frieze.
Piece by piece, pillar and pavement and pierced frieze of stone, the Palace of Gae manifested itself to them, like the many-coloured corpse of a dead dragon, its bare ribs arching high into the milky air.
To Chris Paget, three justices formed their own frieze of conflicting attitudes: Fini satisfied, Masters antagonized, Glynn torn and deeply troubled.
The frieze which crowned her columns was composed of links of pale gold of the utmost fineness, and my fingers strove in vain to give them another direction to that which nature had given them.
The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.
Moorish, ogive windows full of night, gilt arabesque friezes dimly picked out of shadow by the flames in a single candelabrum.
The frieze depicted the arrival of Roak and his five sons and daughters to the Falls over a thousand years before.
The architecture was ornate, cluttered with sculp ture and friezes swarming with demons and monsters and many-armed gods.
Bas-relief 8 Lions Frieze, Susa 9 Painted Head from Edessa 10 Cypriote Vase Decoration 11 Attic Grave Painting 12 Muse of Cortona 13 Odyssey Landscape 14 Amphore, Lower Italy 15 Ritual Scene, Palatine Wall painting 16 Portrait, Fayoum, Graf Collection 17 Chamber in Catacombs, with wall decorations 18 Catacomb Fresco, S.
Behind him were some half-dozen jailers, attired in garments of dark-brown frieze, and each having a large bunch of keys at his girdle.
The metopes and friezes running across the Temple of Zeus told their own story.
But we have attempted to include every Greek temple known to have had pediment-figures or sculptured metopes or frieze, and have thus, for the sake of completeness, registered some examples which are valueless for the main question.
These are the particular carvings of a sculptured frieze where the narthex roof joins the main body.
They proved to be parts of the frieze on the plinth of the orthostat, the decorative inside sheathing of palace walls.
It still boasted the red figured wallpaper that had given it its name, and the red and white marble tiles of the floor, as well as a handsome white marble fireplace and wonderful plasterwork friezes near the ceiling.