secco

noun

1. A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.

   The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry secco (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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