| 释义 | muraladjective /ˈmjʊərəl/  /ˈmjʊrəl/[only before noun]                         jump to other results(of a painting) large and done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a buildingTopics Artc2
muralnoun /ˈmjʊərəl/  /ˈmjʊrəl/                         jump to other resultsa painting, usually a large one, done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a buildingTopics Houses and homesc1, Artc1murals depicting Aesop’s fables
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 Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus ‘wall’. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th cent.) the sense ‘placed or executed on a wall’ arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th cent.).
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