[f. prec. sb.] trans. To paint in fresco.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. iii. 202, note. In the ‘Donation of Constantine,’ frescoed in the Vatican, there is figured a large horn hanging by two chains, among the lamps about the high altar of old St. Peter’s church.
1893. I. Zangwill, in Pall Mall Mag., II. 345/2. We do not soften our lives with an atmosphere of gracious supernaturalism, and fresco our azure ceiling with angels.
Hence Frescoed ppl. a., Frescoing vbl. sb. Also Frescoer, Frescoist, one who paints in fresco.
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, i. § 7. 15. Have we no … frescoed fancies on our roofs?
1859. The Saturday Review, VIII. 16 July, 73/1. Thorley’s Food for Cattle has enriched every railway station in England with scenes of pastoral life and equine incident, which show that many a mute inglorious frescoist has only waited his hour.
1882. Vernon Lee, Apollo the Fiddler, in Fraser’s Mag., XXVI. July 59. We screen our eyes from the shadows, till the frescoed Parnassus gradually emerges from out of the dark wall.
1882. W. H. Bishop, Southern California, in Harper’s Mag., LXVI., Dec., 46/2. You may also look into the lobby of a small adobe jail, which lobby some leisurely prisoner of the frescoer’s trade has been allowed to convert into a resemblance to the dungeon scene at a theatre.
1885. F. Daniel, In an Old Viginia Town, in Ibid., LXX. March, 609. The original frescoing of walls and ceilings, with so pleased Madam Betty’s æsthetic taste, was the work of an English soldier captured during the Revolution.
