frieze

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Recent Examples of frieze Wright included Barnsdall’s favorite flower, hollyhocks, throughout the design, including roof finials, furniture, art glass windows, and ornamental friezes and accents. Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2024 Every year, storms in the North Atlantic cause new treasures to spill out, whether Richard Ginori china or ceramic friezes by Italian artist Guido Gambone. Siobhan Reid, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024 Take the Signature Suite, for example, where guests enter via an open-plan bathroom featuring a clawfoot tub set beneath a frieze of Jason and Medea. Emily Lush, TIME, 25 July 2024 The vines along the bottom of the image, called a frieze, are also similar to other Gallic sites where they were carved into monumental public buildings, officials said. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for frieze 
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Noun
  • These buildings followed the example of an extruded Renaissance palazzo with a prominent roof cornice set by McKim, Mead & White’s 998 Fifth Avenue of 1910.
    David Netto, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The building is clad in glazed terra-cotta and limestone, with plenty of Beaux Arts decorative elements such as oriel windows, cornices, and moldings that reward a closer look.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues.
    Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above).
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
Noun
  • Drench a Room in Color Paint the whole room lavender, walls, doors, architraves, fireplaces, and all; the effect is brilliantly bold and ultra-contemporary, as evidenced by Sawyers’ Dupont Circle project.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
  • The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.
    Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • All the plans are displayed in a single column in the app, which is slightly confusing.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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    Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Crucial tools, especially for galvanizing private capital, have remained untapped in a historically unproductive Congress.
    Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The filing also details the company's liquidity and capital resources, noting cash on hand of $0.4 million as of September 30, 2024, and ongoing financing efforts to support operations.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Each section of the building’s exterior is paired with a layer of terra-cotta pilasters that don both the east and west façades of the tower, giving it a glamorous aged feel without overdoing it.
    Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Highlights of the home include a fireside grand salon, an art gallery that doubles as a safe room, and a movie theater festooned with black marble fluted pilasters and red velvet seats.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • South African police officers escort community members to a mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners in Stilfontein on Wednesday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Human remains and 15 grave shafts were discovered late last month by Indianapolis Department of Public Works crews during excavation for the Henry Street Bridge project.
    Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The Japan Times reported that the letters were carved into a wooden pillar of a traditional entrance, known as a torii gate, at the Meiji Shrine.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Somewhere along the winding road of this historic 40th season, Bananas and his angels (Aviv, Jenny, and Rachel) decided to make foot content a core pillar of their business plan.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024

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