Definitions for fresco

fresco fres·co

Spelling: [fres-koh]
IPA: /ˈfrɛs koʊ/

Fresco is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in fresco (cefors).

Definitions for fresco

noun

  1. Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
  2. a picture or design so painted.

verb (used with object)

  1. to paint in fresco.

Origin of fresco

1590-1600; Italian: cool, fresh (

Examples for fresco

The Daily Pic: A Spanish fresco captures the fearless Middle Ages.

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

As I read this, I imagined a fresco depicting the economic section of the document.

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

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

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

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

This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.

And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.

Cecilia Gimenez botched the restoration of a 19th-century Spanish fresco.

Word Value for fresco
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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