What is "gessoed"

Usage examples of "gessoed".

But going downstairs to visit her friend Ruth after one such spell, Joanna had seen the painting on which Ruth had spent weeks, gessoed over with great, impatient smears of hardening white.

Towering above us, the mine owner's huge, high, massively walled house, gessoed a stark white against so much squalor and darkness.

There were few grays in my palette, but an abundance of yellows and ochers and deep umbers with which I slopped and spattered the gessoed panels I painted on, working in a fury of haste to capture what I was seeing.

The Lippi, painted on gessoed wood, weighed ten pounds and the Monet eight pounds.

As it was, in this immense room with its high gessoed ceilings, he was merely big—quite in keeping with the heroic figures of mythology that decorated the tapestries at either end of the room.