different between frieze vs duffel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z
• Homophones: frees, freeze

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from French and Middle French frise, probably from Medieval Latin Frisia (“Frisian (wool)”) due to import via Northern ships. Or, from French friser (“to curl”)..

Noun

frieze (countable and uncountable, plural friezes)

1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796

     This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month […]

   • 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar

     From beggar's frieze to monarch's robe,

     One common doom is pass'd;

     Sweet nature's works, the swelling globe,

     Must all burn out at last.

   • 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home

     "You may shoot, or you may not," cried Scarrow, striking his hand upon the breast of his frieze jacket.

Translations

Verb

frieze (third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed)

1. (transitive) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.

Etymology 2

From French and Middle French frise f, derived from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, frigium, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic ????????? (?ifr?z, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus Phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “work of Phrygia”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term above in a transferred sense.

Noun

frieze (plural friezes)

1. (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.
2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
3. A banner with a series of pictures.

   The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.

Derived terms

• frieze group

Translations

Verb

frieze (third-person singular simple present friezes, present participle friezing, simple past and past participle friezed)

1. (transitive, architecture) To put a frieze on.

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *fri?sa, from Proto-West Germanic *freusan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fri??z?/

Verb

frieze

1. to freeze

Inflection

Further reading

• “frieze”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• duffle

Etymology

From Dutch duffel, named after Duffel, a town in Belgium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?f?l/
• Rhymes: -?f?l

Noun

duffel (countable and uncountable, plural duffels)

1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
2. (US, colloquial) Outfit or supplies, collectively; kit.

Derived terms

• duffel bag
• duffel coat

Translations

Anagrams

• duffle, luffed

Dutch

Etymology

From the Belgian town of Duffel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.f?l/
• Hyphenation: duf?fel

Noun

duffel m (plural duffels, diminutive duffeltje n)

1. duffel coat

duffel n (uncountable)

1. duffel (cloth)

Derived terms

• duffelcoat

Descendants

• English: duffel