mural

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large painting or other artwork made directly on a wall

   Local artists painted a colorful mural on the library's outer wall.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to, placed on, or forming a wall

   Conservators uncovered traces of mural decoration beneath the plaster.

Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis ("of a wall"), from murus ("wall"). English first used it as an adjective; the now-common noun is shortened from mural painting.

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