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Definition of Frescades
1. frescade [n] - See also: frescade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frescades
Literary usage of Frescades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Glouc. Chron. p. 545. FRES. Question, or doubt. "No fro," Tore ley Mysteries, p.
291. frescades. Cool refreshments. (Fr.) T walk in fresco, ie in the cool. ..."
2. Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1874)
"... feathering upward to an infinity of height spreading out to right and left,
and intervened o'erhead into pleasantest of frescades. ..."
3. Participial substantives of the -ata type in the Romance languages: with by Luther Herbert Alexander (1912)
"frescades (Cotg.) : Refreshments, or things refreshing; as (in Summer-time) light
garments, coole aire, cold places; ..."
4. Photographic History of the World's Fair and Sketch of the City of Chicago by James Wilson Pierce (1893)
"... and its giant palms forming leafy frescades suggestive of tropical luxuriance
and love-making. That remarkable aquatic production, the water hyacinth, ..."
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