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secco.

Dry.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Dry.

    not-comparable
    Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
  2. Dry, sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance.

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.

noun
  1. A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.

noun
  1. Section commander, an infantry soldier responsible for about 8 other soldiers.

    Australia
Where this word comes from

Clipping of section commander + -o.

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