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Fresco

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a painting technique in which pigment is applied to wet plaster
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Stage 1 of 2
affresco
Italian · medieval
"fresh (plaster)"
literally "fresh", describing painting on wet plaster
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Stage 2 of 2
fresco
English · 1600s
"a painting made on wet plaster"
adopted directly from Italian for the painting technique
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