Both Uses of
fresco
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled web-work of names, dates, post-office addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke).†
Chpt 31
- Still drifting along and talking, they scarcely noticed that they were now in a part of the cave whose walls were not frescoed.†
Chpt 31 *
Definition:
a method of artistic painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster; or the painting made in such a manner