fresco | meaning of fresco in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Painting and drawingfrescofres‧co /ˈfreskəʊ $ -koʊ/ noun (plural frescoes or frescos) [countable]    AVPa painting made on a wall while the plaster is still wet → muralExamples from the Corpusfresco• Part of a wall painting here, a bit of a fresco there.• The maximum possible wall and vault area inside is covered by mosaic or, in poorer churches, by fresco paintings.• Painted with the intensity of fresco, they haunt the memory, loaded with illusion and nostalgia.• They are built on the Byzantine pattern, in small scale, and have painted fresco decoration.• But I am not sure that they add to it, either; this is the whole problem of the fresco.• Although this is possible, the fresco iconography does not really supply enough evidence to support it.• He looked up at the vaulted ceiling of the great hall and studied the fresco of constellations.Origin fresco (1500-1600) Italian “fresh”