Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In the fresh air; outdoors: dining alfresco.
- adj. Taking place outdoors; outdoor: an alfresco conference.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the open air; out of doors: as, to dine al fresco.
Wiktionary
- adj. Outdoors, open to the atmosphere
- adv. Outdoors; in fresh air.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In the open-air.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. outside a building
- adj. in the open air
Etymologies
- From Italian al ("at the") + fresco ("cool") (Wiktionary)
- Italian al fresco, in the fresh (air) : al, in the (a, to, in from Latin ad; see ad- + il, the from Latin ille; see al-1 in Indo-European roots) + fresco, fresh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“If you're already looking forward to the alfresco charms of this summer's Lovebox, then you probably know you've still got some time to wait until you can comfortably quaff pints in the festival sunshine.”
“Jean Loncle An alfresco kitchen is nestled just off the pool and the edge of the terrace, where during rainy season, the Mekong waters rise up to the base of the terrace.”
“In the 1990s the revitalization of Delray Beach resulted in what is now the "in" weekend dining-out hotspot, alfresco-style.”
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“But perhaps the Blue Jays will opt to open the roof and play those games alfresco in hopes of freezing Teixeira's bat.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alfresco’.
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food collection
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The Journalists' Vocabulary Challenge
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/journalism/vocab.html
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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To Learn
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poetic & exotic
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free rice fun
words I discovered or was reminded of while playing FreeRice.
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musetta4's list
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Fin de siécle
(it's nothin special)tabula rasa, avant garde, intelligentsia, dialectic, neo-plastic, manifesto, en plein air, bourgeois, proletariat, le corbusier, city beautiful, degenerate art and 17 more...
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AmorFati's list
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
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misterpolly Used to describe a picnic - alfresco lunch. Compare "aldesko" for those who eat their sandwiches in the office. Dec 22, 2007