frieze

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and cornice.
• noun A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room.
• noun A coarse, shaggy woolen cloth with an uncut nap.
• noun A dense, low-pile surface, as in carpeting, resembling such cloth.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In architecture, that part of an entablature which is between the architrave and the cornice; also, any longitudinal decorative feature or band of extended length, occupying a position, in architecture or decoration, more or less similar to that of the frieze in an entablature.
• To border; embroider; ornament the edge of.
• To furnish with a frieze.
• noun A thick and warm woolen cloth used for rough outer garments since the fourteenth century.
• noun In leather manufacturing, an imperfection in leather, sometimes appearing in the preparatory processes of tanning.
• Made of the napped or shaggy cloth called frieze.
• To form a nap on, as cloth, like the nap of frieze; furnish with a nap; frizzle; curl: used especially in the past participle: as, a friezed stuff or garment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
• transitive verb To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See friz, v. t., 2.
• transitive verb a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine.
• noun 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.
• noun Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of column.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
• verb transitive To make a nap on (cloth); to friz.
• noun 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.
• noun Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.
• noun A banner with a series of pictures.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
• noun a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap