friezes

plural of frieze

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Noun
  • With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are three competing impulses from three capitals.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For example, applicants from Afghanistan would largely need to apply in Islamabad, Pakistan, and those from Russia would need to apply from the capitals of Poland, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As arena employees started dismantling the balloon columns decorating the venue and turning hordes of mostly female fans away, there was a frenzy of frustrated tweeting and lots of tears.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The younger woman smiling coyly, as if with a secret, while the older of the two, still young herself, anxious and polite, looks at the strange columns in the kitchen, trying not to be rude about it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a matter of hours, the pillars of an entire system of repression had not simply collapsed.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fasting, which is one of the five pillars of Islam, is a vital part of Ramadan, the holy period that marks the month when Muslims believe the angel Gabriel first revealed the Quran, Islam’s central religious text, to the Prophet Muhammad.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Your house, Baba, Acre’s command post of old Jerusalem stone, with delicate arches and tall pillars, was surrounded by cinchona trees.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The miners insist the two shafts were not connected.
    Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
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