fresco

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Synonyms for fresco

verb apply colored tint, often to make design

Antonyms for fresco

More words related to fresco

color

verb. make pigmented; shade

paint

verb. apply colored tint, often to make design

Word Origin & History

1590s, in fresco, literally "in fresh," with a sense of "painted on fresh mortar or plaster," from Italian fresco "cool, fresh," from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (see fresh (adj.1)).

Example Sentences for fresco

There, just study that fresco, Moses and the daughters of Jethro.

Surely the world shall know you the first of painters in fresco!

In order to see the fresco, I had to get on the top of a loom.

That picture he eventually transferred to his fresco, and there—O bitter irony!

It was painted on the wall, like a fresco; and how to remove it was the difficulty.

With one he went to Siena to assist him in some fresco painting he had to do there.

Being uninjured by lime, the colour is eligible in fresco and crayons.

In admixture it may safely be employed, as well as in fresco or enamel.

Behind it, on the rounded wall, are faint traces of carving and of fresco.

The fresco by Giotto is much, but the vault it adorns was planned first.