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mural
[ myoor-uhl ]
noun
- a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
- a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil.
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
- executed on or affixed to a wall:
mural inscriptions.
- pertaining to any of several astronomical instruments that were affixed to a wall aligned on the plane of a meridian, and were formerly used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies:
a mural quadrant; a mural circle.
mural
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noun
- a large painting or picture on a wall
adjective
- of or relating to a wall
mural
- A painting, usually large, made directly on a wall.
Notes
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¾³Ü°ù²¹±ô¾±²õ³Ù, noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mural1
Example Sentences
The exhibit, titled “Conversations With Ghosts,†included a mural reproducing a detail from a piece by Corita Kent currently in the Frac Lorraine collection.
How about we preserve and protect the eye-catching murals that adorn L.A.’s walls and freeway abutments?
Thanks to my high school students, I had become as enamored of L.A.’s murals and graffiti as I had once been with its celebrities.
He stopped dealing in 2006 when his son was born and has since painted a mural at his old selling spot.
Brightman hired Kiernan Graves, a wall-painting conservator who specializes in murals and frescoes, to see what she could find beneath what turned out to be more than nine layers of paint.
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