fresco

What it means

1. countableA cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.

   […] I [Satan] cannot ſtay Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, Love more the freſco of the nights; […]

   a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 124

2. countablepaintingAn artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
3. uncountablepaintingThe technique used to make such an artwork.

In a sentence

[…] I [Satan] cannot ſtay Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, Love more the freſco of the nights; […]

a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 124

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Germanic*friskaz
2. Vulgar Latin*friscum
3. Italianfresco
4. Englishfresco

From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk.