Usually means: Decorative horizontal band on buildings.
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  1. friezes: Merriam-Webster
  2. friezes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. friezes: Vocabulary.com
  4. friezes: Wordnik
  5. friezes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Friezes, friezes: Wiktionary
  7. friezes: Dictionary.com
  8. friezes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Friezes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Friezes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Friezes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See frieze as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Frieze)

noun:  A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
verb:  (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
noun:  A banner with a series of pictures.
verb:  (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.
noun:  A surname.
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