Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.
- noun A painting executed in this way.
- transitive verb To paint in fresco.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint in fresco, as a wall.
- noun Coolness; a cool, refreshing state of the air; shade. See
al fresco . - noun A method of painting on walls covered with a ground or coat of plaster or mortar, with which the colors become permanently incorporated if properly chosen and applied; also, a picture or design so painted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
- noun The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
- noun In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
- noun A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.
- transitive verb To paint in fresco, as walls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable In painting, the technique of applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
- noun countable A painting made using this technique.
- verb To
paint using fresco
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
- verb paint onto wet plaster on a wall
- noun a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I especially like the texture of the image, almost like a fresco from a forgotten time.
Books Received for July 2008, Week 1 (Pick Your Favorite Cover!) 2008
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He explained the general rules of color composition in fresco, enamel, and pastel painting, showing how to use his wheel and chart together as a tool to select the appropriate color combinations for each technique.
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The walls of one among them were entirely covered with scriptural pictures in fresco of rather coarse execution, but still tolerably preserved, excepting the heads, of which no doubt
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The verses on the fresco are a prophecy on the birth of the Messiah, Christ.
The Pier of Goritz 2009
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The verses on the fresco are a prophecy on the birth of the Messiah, Christ.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The front of the arcosolium is closed by a wall, on the surface of which is an interesting fresco, which is here reproduced.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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The fresco is a procession of boats with music and lights.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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A carved "stemma," or coat of arms, over a side-door was all the parsonage had to show, and no trace of the fresco was anywhere discernible.
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On our return to the anderoon the Shah's mother made me observe that the walls of the court had been recently painted in fresco.
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'St. Peter and St. Paul,' Guercino's 'Hagar and Abraham;' a row of old columns which were broken and lying about till the French set them upon their legs; Leonardo da Vinci's fresco, which is entirely spoilt.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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