fresco
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of fresco
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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; […]”
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noun
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(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; […]”
- (countable)An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
- (uncountable)The technique used to make such an artwork.
verb
- (ambitransitive)To paint using fresco.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk.
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