mural

Word family

AVPa painting that is painted on a wall, either inside or outside a building 壁画 → fresco

—mural adjectiveadj [only before noun]

Examples from the Corpus

mural• The view was like a mural painted on a blue backdrop.• a mural 72 feet long and 7 feet tall• All over Isfahan are murals of an angry Khomeini glaring down from the clouds.• I stayed after hours doing murals on tailgates.• Behind him a huge mural of Monument Valley, John Ford's favourite location, glows red as hell.• Gone are the wild, kaleidoscopic murals, desiccated couches and furry dancing masses that rendered the old space a rhythmic poltergeist.• Large murals from the mansion are now on the walls of Prestwick Indoor Bowling Club.• Or finish with trompe l'oeil painted murals.

Origin mural

(1500-1600) Latin muralis “of a wall”, from murus “wall”

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