al fresco

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  1. In the open air; out of doors: as, to dine al fresco. Much of the gayety and brightness of al-fresco life. The Century, XXVII. 190. Such al fresco suppers the country-gentlemen of Italy ate in the first century of our era! D. G. Mitchell, Wet Days.

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  1. Italian, literally in the cool air: al for a il (from Latin ad illum), in the; fresco, cool or fresh air, from fresco, cool, fresh, from Old High German frisc = English fresh: see fresh, fresco.
 

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