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fresco

  • noun
  • fre·sco
  • /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/

A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.

Other meanings

  1. An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.

  2. The technique used to make such an artwork.

A kind of

  • mural

Related words

  • frescoer
  • frescoist
  • frescolike

Word history

From Italian "fresco".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “fresco” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.