Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The painting of the surface of a wall, or of kindred surfaces, with ornamental designs or figure-subjects, as a decoration. Such painting is usually classified as encaustic or as fresco or tempera painting.
- noun An example or work of painting of this kind.
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Examples
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San Francisco is partnering with street artists who ply their wall-painting skills legally paying them to paint buildings.
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They were waiting by the all scrawled-over municipal wall-painting of the nagoy dignity of labour, bare vecks and cheenas stern at the wheels of industry, like I said, with all this dirt pencilled from their rots by naughty malchicks.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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A vivid early second millennium B.C. wall-painting fragment from the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari (Syria), which depicts a male figure leading a bull by its golden nose-ring to a ritual sacrifice, ushers people into the next room.
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Sure, both books show people with their eyes firmly attached to the sides of their heads, Egyptian wall-painting style.
Review of the Day: Cesar - Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! fusenumber8 2006
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It was a fresco, a wall-painting of unimaginable barbarity, a mass execution.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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He and Costas had silently kitted up in the ancient chamber a few minutes before, donning the equipment Reksnys had ordered them to bring from Seaquest II Jack had refused to divulge any of his thoughts about the wall-painting, and Maria had remained obstinately silent in the corner of the chamber even after the tape had been ripped away from her mouth.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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Without the much-abused intellectuals, we would have a two-dimensional tapestry world, a medieval wall-painting showing the entire world to be a billion Simpson characters frozen in media time.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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It was a fresco, a wall-painting of unimaginable barbarity, a mass execution.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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He and Costas had silently kitted up in the ancient chamber a few minutes before, donning the equipment Reksnys had ordered them to bring from Seaquest II Jack had refused to divulge any of his thoughts about the wall-painting, and Maria had remained obstinately silent in the corner of the chamber even after the tape had been ripped away from her mouth.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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The wall-painting was clearly a narrative, a progression of scenes in a story, going from right to left.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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