frieze

noun
🔊/friːz/
🔊/friːz/
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  1. a border that goes around the top of a room or building with pictures or carvings on it饰带,带状装饰Topics Houses and homesc2, Artc2
  2. a long narrow picture, usually put up in a school, that children have made or that teaches them something长条横幅图画(通常校内展示的学生习作或有教育意义的图画)
    • The children made a frieze showing traders and their camels crossing the desert.孩子们抬起头来,显示商人和他们的骆驼穿越沙漠。
  3. Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French frise, from medieval Latin frisium, variant of frigium, from Latin Phrygium (opus) ‘(work) of Phrygia’, an ancient region of west central Asia Minor.