A fresco is a picture that is painted on a plastered wall when the plaster is still wet.
2. See also alfresco
fresco in British English
(ˈfrɛskəʊ)
nounWord forms: plural-coes or -cos
1.
a very durable method of wall-painting using watercolours on wet plaster or, less properly, dry plaster (fresco secco), with a less durable result
2.
a painting done in this way
Word origin
C16: from Italian: fresh plaster, coolness, from fresco (adj) fresh, cool, of Germanic origin
fresco in American English
(ˈfrɛskoʊ)
nounWord forms: pluralˈfrescoes or ˈfrescos
1.
the art or technique of painting with watercolors on wet plaster
2.
a painting or design so made
verb transitive
3.
to paint in fresco
Word origin
It, fresh < OHG frisc: see fresh1
Examples of 'fresco' in a sentence
fresco
So grab your sunglasses and dine al fresco this weekend!
The Sun (2013)
It became a must for tennis players and fans who dined al fresco in the shade of its trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Beard is shown restored mosaics and frescoes, and taken inside store rooms packed with artefacts.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or... the most expensive furniture.
Abercrombie, Stanley A Philosophy of Interior Design (1990)
There were no wall frescoes in here, because the walls of the most noble room in the house would have been hung with silk.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Marvellous mosaics, realistic frescoes, silver and glass.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In almost all the houses, ancient frescoes and mosaics are at risk and the stability of the structures has been undermined by invading vegetation and periodic floods.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
These huge frescoes and wall paintings and vast cascading statues were the cinema of the time, the agents of imagination, as fashion is now becoming.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
fresco
British English: fresco NOUN
A fresco is a picture that is painted on a plastered wall when the plaster is still wet.