frescade

English

Etymology

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

Noun

frescade (plural frescades)

1. A cool walk.
2. A shady place.
   • 1881, Frank Chapman Bliss, Queen Esther: And Other Poems:

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

   • 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:

     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.

Related terms

• fresco
• fresh

References

• “frescade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• defacers