Secco

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

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

2.adjectiveDry

"Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster."

3.adjectiveDry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance

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