unfrescoedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unfrescoed (not comparable)

1. Not frescoed; not painted with frescos.
   • 1886, S. Russell Forbes, Rambles in Naples: An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Naples and Its Environs, 3rd edition, London: T. Nelson and Sons, page 62:

     This house, like many others at the time of the destruction of the city, was undergoing repairs—one of the sides of the peristylium being left unfrescoed, the other being finished.

   • 1959, Dorothy Norris Foote, The Constant Star, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 58:

     It was an old chapel, known to his father and his father's father. The unfrescoed walls still showed faintly the outlines of Popish statuary that had stood against them long ago, and the smoke of many candles had darkened the rafters to match the color of the lowering sky outdoors.

   • 1979, Brian De Jongh, The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 292:

     As the monastery grew in size and importance, the church was found too small and a larger edifice, also dedicated to St George, was raised in the early nineteenth century further up the slope. It is unfrescoed but possesses a fine collection of icons, a reliquary containing a drop of St John the Baptist's blood and two magnificent mosaic panels (portative icons) of the thirteenth century, representing St George and St Demetrius.

   • 2007, Tom McCarthy, Men in Space, Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 31:

     It reminds Nick of the baths in Greenwich where he learnt to swim: that mixture of closeness and distance; sounds of strangers echoing and dying across a cherubless, unfrescoed dome; and then the brothy smell of oxtail trickling from the drinks machine afterwards.