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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fresco \Fres"co\, noun; pl. {Frescoes} or {Frescos}. [It., fr. fresco fresh; of German origin. See {Fresh}, adjective]
1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] --Prior.
2. (Fine Arts) (a) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries. (b) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner. (c) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fresco \Fres"co\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Frescoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frescoing}.] To paint in fresco, as walls.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fresco
noun
1: a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
2: a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
verb: paint onto wet plaster on a wall [also: {frescoes} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "fresco": abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, block print, brush on paint, calcimine, calcimining, coat, coating, collage, color, color print, complexion, copy, cover, covering, cyclorama, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, diptych, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, enameling, engild, engraving, face, fast-dye, gild, gilding, glaze, glazing, gloss, glossing, grain, hue, icon, illuminate, illumination, illustration, image, imbue, ingrain, japan, japanning, lacquer, lay on color, likeness, miniature, montage, mosaic, mural, paint, painting, panorama, parget, photograph, picture, pigment, prime, priming, print, representation, reproduction, shade, shadow, shellac, shellacking, slop on paint, smear, stain, stained glass window, staining, stencil, still life, stipple, stippling, tableau, tapestry, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, triptych, undercoat, undercoating, varnish, varnishing, wall painting, wash, whitewash, whitewashing
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Fresco
1. An {object-oriented} {API} for {graphical user interface}s, under development by the {X Consortium} as an open, multi-vendor {standard}. 2. An {object-oriented} {specification language}. ["Refinement in Fresco", in Object Oriented Specification Case Studies, K. Lano et al eds, P-H 1993]. (1996-04-28)
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