Frette, in architecture, a kind of knot or ornament, consisting of two laths or small fillets variously interlaced or interwoven, and running at parallel distances equal to their breadth.

heraldry, a bearing composed of six bars, crooked, and variously interlaced, as represented in plate LXXX. fig. 9.

Some call it the true lover's knot.

music, signifies a kind of stop on some instruments, particularly bass-violins and lutes. Frets consist of strings tied round the neck of the instrument, at certain distances, within which such and such notes are to be found.

Fret-work, that adorned with frets. It is sometimes used to fill up and enrich flat empty spaces; but is mostly practised in roofs, which are fitted over with plaster work.

Freystat, a town of Silesia, in Germany, E. long. 17° 55', N. lat. 50°.