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alfresco (al-FRES-ko) adjective and adverb

Outdoors; in the open air.

[From Italian alfresco (in the fresh).]

"Santa Fe will be less alfresco next year when all its audience is to be roofed, though not walled, from the squalls on New Mexico's mesa." American Opera Festivals: Buffy, Not Stuffy, The Economist (London), Sep 9, 1995.

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