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  • This fresco, in fact, is the entire key to the Holy Grail mystery.†  (source)
  • Even Proust — there's a famous passage where Odette opens the door with a cold, she's sulky, her hair is loose and undone, her skin is patchy, and Swann, who has never cared about her until that moment, falls in love with her because she looks like a Botticelli girl from a slightly damaged fresco.†  (source)
  • The fresco was enough to quiet the chaperone for a few seconds, and her heels didn't fall off, which made her even more cheerful.†  (source)
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  • Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.†  (source)
    frescoes = paintings made with watercolors on wet plaster
  • It took a moment before I realized that it was a leafy replica of Michelangelo's fresco of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.†  (source)
    fresco = a method of artistic painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster; or the painting made in such a manner
  • Ironically, chubby cherubs look down at us from the frescoed ceiling.†  (source)
  • Rome has agreed with you, I see—happiness, frescos, the antique—that sort of thing.†  (source)
    frescos = paintings made with watercolors on wet plaster
  • There was to be an addition—a small snuggery; there was to be frescoing, and hardwood flooring was to be put into such rooms as had not yet been subjected to this improvement.†  (source)
  • The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves.†  (source)
  • With the passage of time, Alba filled not only one but all her bedroom walls with an immense fresco.†  (source)
    fresco = a method of artistic painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster; or the painting made in such a manner
  • Everything he said echoed off of the giant frescoed walls and vaulted, carved ceilings.†  (source)
  • Then he turned his attention to embroideries, and to the tapestries that performed the office of frescos in the chill rooms of the Northern nations of Europe.†  (source)
    frescos = paintings made with watercolors on wet plaster
  • Strokes of color all around, a frescoing of hats and faces and the green grandstand and tawny base paths.†  (source)
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