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fresco - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

fresco (countable and uncountable, plural frescos or frescoes or (rare, Italianate) freschi)

  • (countable) A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.
    • ✤ […] I[Satan] cannot ſtay
      Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day:
      For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites,
      Love more the freſco of the nights; […]      1
  • (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.

Etymology

From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin ﹡friscum, from Proto-Germanic ﹡friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA: /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɹɛskəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: (General American) -ɛskoʊ, (Received Pronunciation) -ɛskəʊ
  • Hyphenation: fre‧sco

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Footnotes

  1. a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 124: ↩

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