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Noun: fresco (frescoes,frescos)  fres-kow
  1. A mural done with watercolours on wet plaster
    "The Renaissance fresco on the chapel ceiling was beautifully preserved"
     
  2. A durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolours on wet plaster
    "Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are world-renowned"
Verb: fresco  fres-kow
  1. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
    "Michelangelo frescoed the Sistine Chapel ceiling"

Derived forms: frescoes, frescoed, frescoing, frescos

Type of: mural, paint, painting, wall painting

Encyclopedia: Fresco, Ivory Coast