Definition of Frises

1. frise [n] - See also: frise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frises

fripons
fripper
fripperer
fripperers
fripperies
frippers
frippery
frippet
frippets
frippish
fris
frisbees
frise
frisee
frisees
frises (current term)
frisette
frisettes
friseur
friseurs
frisk
friska
friskals
friskas
frisked
frisker
friskers
frisket
friskets
friskful

Literary usage of Frises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall: Kept in Philadelphia and by Christopher Marshall, William Duane (1877)
"... building frigates, cheveaux de frises, &c 5. This day arrived the Brig Lexington from her cruise of weeks ; she having carried away her foremast in 6. ..."

2. The Statutes of Wales by Wales, Ivor Bowen (1908)
"... which true and good making of frises and cottons hath been of long time decayed and extinguished and yet is, to the great decay and ruin of all the said ..."

3. A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Compiled by Member of the Royal Geographical Society (1856)
"frises and Anr/les, two German tribes, located on the W coast of ... The other frises speak a kind of Low German; the Angles, a corrupted Danish. ..."

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