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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRES'CO, n.
1. Coolness; shade; a cool refreshing state of the air; duskiness.
2. A picture not drawn in glaring light, but in dusk.
3. A method of painting in relief on walls, performed with water-colors on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry. the colors, incorporating with the mortar, and drying with it, become very durable. It is called fesco, either because it is done on fresh plaster, or because it is used on walls and buildings in the open air.
4. A cool refreshing liquor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
2: a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster v
1: paint onto wet plaster on a wall

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural frescoes) Etymology: Italian, from fresco fresh, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German frisc fresh Date: 1598 1. the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments 2. a painting executed in fresco • fresco transitive verb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -os or -oes) 1 a painting done in water-colour on a wall or ceiling while the plaster is still wet. 2 this method of painting (esp. in fresco). Phrases and idioms: fresco secco = SECCO. Derivatives: frescoed adj. Etymology: It., = cool, fresh

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fresco Fres"co, n.; pl. Frescoes or Frescos. [It., fr. fresco fresh; of German origin. See Fresh, a.] 1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] --Prior. 2. (Fine Arts) (a) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries. (b) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner. (c) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b .

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fresco Fres"co, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frescoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Frescoing.] To paint in fresco, as walls.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frescoes, or frescos) A fresco is a picture that is painted on a plastered wall when the plaster is still wet. N-COUNT see also alfresco

Moby Thesaurus

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