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More loosely, "frieze" is sometimes used for any continuous horizontal strip of decoration on a wall, containing figurative or ornamental motifs. In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal
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decoration in such a position, normally above eye-level. Frieze decorations may depict scenes in a sequence of discrete panels. The material of which the frieze is made of may be
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In interiors, the frieze of a room is the section of wall above the
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are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither
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framing a lotus surrounded by small rosette flowers, 3rd BCE
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bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze.
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or cornice. By extension, a frieze is a long stretch of
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being the most famous, and perhaps the most elaborate.
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Frieze of animals, mythological episodes at the base of
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in section. Such friezes were features of 17th-century
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