frieze

How To Use frieze In A Sentence

• Well, a cup of coffee and a croissant is probably the answer at Frieze. Times, Sunday Times
• The frieze, where of old would prance an exuberant processional of gods, is, in this case, bare of decoration, but upon the epistyle is written in simple, stern letters the word "EUSTON. Men, Women, and Boats
• The large frieze panels connecting the archivolts form the entablature of the columns.
• Their beauty and fitness are not those of the grand columns of the temple; they are the sculptures upon the frieze, the caryatides, or the graceful interlacings of vines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
• The plinths below the columns, the arch spandrels, friezes and entablatures were enriched with carved ornament and sculpture.
• It is in typical ‘Kentian’ style, with the cornice supported on scrolled brackets flanking a frieze with swags and a central mask, the jambs being carved as female terms with classical drapery.
• Already quaint and seedy: the draperied ladies on the frieze of the carrousel are his father’s father’s mooncheeked dreams; if he thinks of it more he will vomit his apple-on-a-stick. The Worst Years of Your Life
• This spatial richness was supported by the increasing complexity of the decorative scheme, with the frieze above the first floor decorated with medallions beneath an attic storey supported on caryatids.
• Hybrid creatures, such as sphinxes, harpies, sirens, griffons and centaurs, carved on Roman sarcophagi, candelabras, altars and temple friezes, were a direct source of artistic inspiration.
• I thought of the marble frieze in Barre and hoped some one had covered it against the snow.