FRESCO

fresco

(noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster

fresco

(noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster

fresco

(verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fresco (countable and uncountable, plural frescos or frescoes)

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

(countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.

(uncountable, painting) The technique used to make such an artwork.

Verb

fresco (third-person singular simple present frescoes, present participle frescoing, simple past and past participle frescoed)

(ambitransitive) To paint using fresco.

Anagrams

• Cofers, corfes, forces

Source: Wiktionary

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Fres"co, n.; pl. Frescoes or Frescos. Etym: [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.

Fres"co, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frescoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Frescoing.]

Definition: To paint in fresco, as walls.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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