Definitions for frescos

frescos fres·co

Spelling: [fres-koh]
IPA: /ˈfrɛs koʊ/

Frescos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in frescos (ceforss).

Definitions for frescos

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 frescos

1590-1600; Italian: cool, fresh (

Examples for frescos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for frescos
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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