fascia vs frieze

fascia

noun
  • The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public. 

  • A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller. 

  • A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone. 

  • A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing. 

  • A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches. 

  • The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis. 

  • A broad well-defined band of color. 

  • A dashboard. 

  • A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. 

frieze

noun
  • A banner with a series of pictures. 

  • A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. 

  • 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. 

  • Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. 

verb
  • To put a frieze on. 

  • To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. 

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