frise
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
/ˈfɹaɪz/
Definition of frise
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic, uncountable)Frisia: (historical) a traditionally Frisian-speaking coastal Western Europe, politically split between Netherlands and Germany
“It was originally applied to cloths of gold made in Frise, a province in the Low Countries”
“The kingdom of the Netherlands was declared by the Congress at Vienna to be composed of North and South Brabant, Limbourg, Guelders, Liege, East and West Flanders, Hainault, Holland, Zealand, Namur, Antwerp, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel, Groningen and Drenthe.”
“We not only find them in the swamps of Lower Germany and the provinces of Frise, Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but also in the sands of Campine and about Dunkirk.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English Frīse, from Old English Frīsa, Proto-West Germanic *Frīsō.
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