frequentable (frekwentabl)

[= F. fré quentable; as frequent + -able.] Acce ible; easy of approach. While youth lasted in him, the exercises of that age, and his humour, not yet fully discovered, made him somewhat the more frequentable and le dangerous. Sir P. Sidney. Have made their bookstore most frequentable for facility of purchase. The New Mirror, III. (1843). frequent age (frē-kwen'tāj), n. [ frequent + -age.] The practice of frequenting: as, "remote from frequent age," Southey . [Rare.] frequentation (fre-kwen-ta's hon), n. [F.fré quentation = Sp. frecuentacion = Pg. frequent a ção = It. frequent azione , frequentatio (n-), frequency, frequent use, The loveliest cove upon the North New England coast, and nearly the loneliest, a few miles ahead of the wave of indiscriminate frequentation already rolling steadily on towards the British provinces. IMG:content-1836.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A method of painting on walls covered with a ground or coat of plaster or mortar, with which the colors become permanently incoгроrated if properly chosen and applied; also, a picture or design so painted. True fresco (Italian buon fresco ) is painting in colors mixed with water or hydrate of lime upon a wet surface of mortar made of lime and pure quartz-sand. In this method earth pigments are chiefly used, because all vegetable and many mineral pigments are decomposed by lime or altered by light. The solidity of the painting depends upon the penetration of the colors into the plaster or mortar, and upon the crystalline layer which forms upon its surface before the mortar has set, as it does in a few hours through the absorption of carbonic acid from the atmosphere. If this crystalline layer is disturbed, or if it has begun to form while the artist is painting, or if it forms between the thinner and thicker coats of color succe ively applied, the colors will flake and fall away. Dry fresco (Italian fresco secco ) is a method of fresco-painting upon a dry surface. The last coat of plaster, or intonaco, when perfectly dry, is rubbed with pumice-stone, and well wetted with water and a little lime the evening before painting, and again immediately before the artist begins work. The first step in this proce is to pounce the outline of the design upon the wall. The phrase fresco secco is applied also to retouching in distemper. The implements used by fresco-painters include wooden and gla floats, trowels of wood and iron, palette knives of steel and bone, a trimming-knife, a bone or ivory stylus, and brushes of hog-bristles and other hair, of such quality as to be neither curled nor burned by lime. Com pare distemper2. It is a very common error to term the ancient paintings found on church walls, ., frescos , but there is scarcely an instance of a genuine fresco among them. They are distemper paintings on plaster, and quite distinct in their style, durability, and mode of manipulation. Fairholt . The room, which was not darkened, was hung with damask of purple and gold, and the high ceiling was painted with gay frescos of some story of the gods. C. E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 30. Florentine fresco. See Florentine. - Fresco colors. See color. In fresco, in the open air; out of doors: same as al fresco. Come, let us take, in fresco here, one quart. B. Jonson, New Inn, iv. 2. The house was doubly balconied in the front... for the clubsters to i ue forth in fresco with hats and perukes. Roger North, Lord Guilford, I. 145.