secco

1. not comparableartDry.

   Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.

2. not comparableentertainmentDry, sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance.

plural seccos

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

   The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]

   1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts, page 289

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   The sad fact is that if they had tried to preserve the secco, and used less invasive cleaners like saliva, they might still be toiling away today. Time isn’t just a painter; time is money.

   2015 November 28, James Hall, “Condition: The Ageing of Art by Paul Taylor review – fires, floods and conservation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

plural seccos

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