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Definition of "wall-painting" [wall-painting]

  • The painting of the surface of a wall, or of kindred surfaces, with ornamental designs or figure-subjects, as a decoration. Such painting is usually classified as encaustic or as fresco or tempera painting. (noun)
  • An example or work of painting of this kind. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "wall-painting" in a sentence
  • "San Francisco is partnering with street artists who ply their wall-painting skills legally paying them to paint buildings."
  • "They were waiting by the all scrawled-over municipal wall-painting of the nagoy dignity of labour, bare vecks and cheenas stern at the wheels of industry, like I said, with all this dirt pencilled from their rots by naughty malchicks."
  • "A vivid early second millennium B.C. wall-painting fragment from the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari (Syria), which depicts a male figure leading a bull by its golden nose-ring to a ritual sacrifice, ushers people into the next room."