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#53478 01/22/02 02:52 PM
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Of course, this is my AWAD week.
On the word of today - al fresco - I can add that we use it also to mean "in jails". No idea why.


#53479 01/22/02 04:05 PM
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Emanuela,

Wonderful to have an Italian week. I hope you will find more to comment on.

As for "al fresco" also meaning in jail, maybe it's just a kind of sarcasm?


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I note that emanuela makes it into two words. I have never before seen it as one word.
But my dictionary gives it both ways.


#53481 01/22/02 05:04 PM
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Din't he run a sidewalk café on Forty-leventh Street down in Vecchio Old Town?




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Dear Faldage: you should spend six month in the durance vile type of al fresco.


#53483 01/22/02 09:13 PM
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I don't understand what they're talking about, either.


#53484 01/22/02 10:37 PM
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I don't understand what they're talking about, either.

Isn't it obvious?


#53485 01/23/02 12:52 AM
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I searched for "al fresco jail" and got this:

Just an observation from one who's been to Italy, dined in many sidewalk cafes and is an
amateur linguist. It seems to me that "al fresco" might be colloquial Italian for "in jail" the way
Americans use "in the cooler", to express incarceration.


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Does anyone know what connection there is between this definition and the type of painting?


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Fresco painting is done with water colors on fresh plaster, meaning plaster newly mixed, unset.


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