secco
See also: seccò
English
Adjective
secco (not comparable)
Noun
secco (plural seccos)
- (art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
- 1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts (page 289)
- The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]
- 1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts (page 289)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for secco in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsekko]
- Rhymes: -ekko
Synonyms
- (drought) siccità
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