Secco Definition

sĕkō
secco
noun
Painting done on dry plaster.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or being a kind of recitative in which the words are sung rapidly to minimal accompaniment, usually just continuo.
American Heritage
Dry.
Webster's New World

(art) Dry.

Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
Wiktionary
(music) Dry - sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance.
Wiktionary
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Wiktionary

Origin of Secco

  • Borrowing from Italian secco ("dry").

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian from Latin siccus dry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Secco Sentence Examples

  • New maps of Spain and Portugal appeared in 1560, the former being due to Pedro de Medina, the latter to Fernando Alvarez Secco and Hernando Alvaro.

  • The place was previously known as Corrego Secco, which Dr George Gardner described in 1837 as "a small, miserable village."

  • After five to eight years it may become an amontillado, and if it is left in cask and allowed to develop, it will, after it attains an age of nine to fourteen years, become an oloroso, and still later it may become a secco.

  • The vino dulce and vino secco are both made as a rule from the Pedro Jimenez (white) grape, the former in much the same way as the dulce which is employed in the sherry industry, the latter by permitting fermentation to take its normal course.

  • Look for the term Amabile on the label, which indicates it is sweet rather than dry, which is Secco.

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Words Starting With

SSESEC

Words Ending With

OCOCCO

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