frescade

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noun

A cool walk.

OriginFrench frescade ← Italian frescata →
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Meanings

nounfrescade (plural frescades)

plural frescades

  1. A cool walk.
  2. A shady place.

    Here, in this Frescade, will I sit down, with lingering Eye will gaze upon those laughing, joyous Beings

    1881, Frank Chapman Bliss, Queen Esther: And Other Poems
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    She made her way to a secluded frescade in the grounds, where was a stone belvedere, and, hard by on a natural hillock, a marble statue of Good Queen Bess on a pedestal of native rock.

    1890, Paul Cushing, “The Little Gods at Work”, in The Bull i’ th’ Thorn: A Romance […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 93

Origin

  1. Italianfrescata
  2. Frenchfrescade
  3. Englishfrescade

From French frescade, from Italian frescata, from fresco (“cool”).

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APA

frescade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frescade

MLA

“frescade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frescade. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frescade,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frescade.

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