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countable and uncountable, plural frescos or frescoes
(countable) A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade. quotations examples
[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]
a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, page 124
(countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. examples
(uncountable, painting) The technique used to make such an artwork. examples
third-person singular simple present frescoes, present participle frescoing, simple past and past participle frescoed
(transitive, intransitive) To paint using fresco. examples