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See more synonyms for fresco on Thesaurus.com noun, plural fres·coes, fres·cos. Also called buon fresco , true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco . a picture or design so painted. Show More
verb (used with object), fres·coed, fres·co·ing. to paint in fresco. Show More
Origin of fresco 1590–1600; <
Italian: cool,
fresh (< Gmc)
Related forms fres·co·er , fres·co·ist , noun Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for fresco portray ,
sketch ,
depict ,
coat ,
cover ,
draw ,
daub ,
wash ,
tint ,
design ,
decorate ,
dye ,
brush ,
illuminate ,
enliven ,
embellish ,
paint ,
darken ,
infuse ,
stain Examples from the Web for fresco Contemporary Examples of fresco And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco .
As I read this, I imagined a fresco depicting the economic section of the document.
This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.
The Daily Pic: A Spanish fresco captures the fearless Middle Ages.
Cecilia Gimenez botched the restoration of a 19th-century Spanish fresco .
Historical Examples of fresco There, just study that fresco , Moses and the daughters of Jethro.
Surely the world shall know you the first of painters in fresco !
In order to see the fresco , I had to get on the top of a loom.
That picture he eventually transferred to his fresco , and there—O bitter irony!
It was painted on the wall, like a fresco ; and how to remove it was the difficulty.
British Dictionary definitions for fresco noun plural -coes or -cos a very durable method of wall-painting using watercolours on wet plaster or, less properly, dry plaster (fresco secco ), with a less durable result a painting done in this way Show More
Word Origin for fresco C16: from Italian: fresh plaster, coolness, from fresco (adj) fresh, cool, of Germanic origin
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Word Origin and History for fresco n. 1590s, in fresco , literally "in fresh," with a sense of "painted on fresh mortar or plaster," from Italian fresco "cool, fresh," from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (see fresh (adj.1)).
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