/
ˈfrɛskəʊ/
n.
(pl. frescoes or frescos)
a type of painting done in watercolour on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, in which the colours penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
Derivative
Etymology
C16: Ital., lit. ‘cool, fresh’; first recorded in the phr. in fresco, representing Ital. affresco, al fresco ‘on the fresh (plaster)’.
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