frieze; border
“Du persil, du cresson, de la fougère et de mille autres végétaux communs, ils tirent des chapiteaux ou des frises d'une beauté de ligne, d'une hardiesse et d'une sûreté d'interprétation qui nous étonnent et nous émerveillent.” — From parsley, watercress, ferns, and a thousand other common plants, they derive capitals and friezes of a linear beauty—of a boldness and sureness of interpretation—that astonish and amaze us.
Synonyms: bord, bordure
Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a tran