secco
Speech parts
1. secco - Noun
2. secco - Adjective
Meaning
Dry.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnagrams
Examples
Johnston & Edleman were commissioned for the design of the Moody Tabernacle, with the interior decorative "fresco secco" stencils (stencil technique applied on dry plaster) designed by Sullivan.
Here, the forms were freer and less extended than in the serious genre and the set numbers were linked by recitativo secco, the exception being Donizetti's Don Pasquale in 1843.
Other types of wall painting A secco or fresco-secco painting is done on dry plaster (secco meaning "dry" in Italian).
Opera seria was elevated in tone and highly stylised in form, usually consisting of secco recitative interspersed with long da capo arias.
Best paired with Secco Italian Bubbles Chardonnay.
Fresco-secco painting is done on dry plaster (secco is "dry" in Italian).