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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
al fresco

1753, Italian, literally "in the fresh (air)." Italian al represents a contraction of words from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + ille "that." Alfresco also meant "painted on plaster that was still fresh or moist" (1764; see fresco).

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al fresco

a. outdoors, in the open air. adv. outdoors, in the open air.

Usage examples of "al fresco".

I knew what I needed to lift my gloom, and it wasn't an al fresco lunch in the mangrove swamps with those three.

I'll have to get some --ing friends so's they can envy me when I'm having a meal with --ing Al Fresco.

I'll have to get some -ing friends so's they can envy me when I'm having a meal with -ing Al Fresco.

Aunt did not like al fresco parties: she said that nothing more surely made one catch severe chills than sitting on damp ground, and that the ground always was damp, even if the picnic wasn't spoilt by a sudden shower of rain, which, in her experience, it usually was.

After the short and simple Calvinistic ceremony that Uncle Tromp conducted, there was an al fresco wedding banquet provided by Colonel Boldt, under the trees, with a four-piece band wearing Tyrolean hats and lederhosen.

Balfour said, passing the leather jacket back to Christine, and casually taking the wheel from me, only just in time to prevent us and the car creating an al fresco mural along the wall.

The social season brings everything from the grandest of balls to luncheons al fresco and expeditions to the lake.