frieze
Example Sentences
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Above them sits a gleaming frieze of 42 judges, each marked with a golden Ma’at feather.
He went back to rooting in the basket and pulled out an old frieze jacket.
From Literature
The dark green in the decorative friezes, as well as the lintels and pilasters of the Palladian window, is newly accurate, too.
Yet collectively they suggest a frieze on an antique sarcophagus, aligned on the rosy ledge across the bottom of the painting, their heads forming a horizontal row with that of Jesus.
They walked along the granite embankments of the Neva, past the magnificent Admiralty building and its proud white columns, its countless statues and friezes depicting figures from myths and ancient times.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
