Alfresco vs Verandah - What's the difference?
alfresco | verandah |
Outdoors, open to the atmosphere
Outdoors; in fresh air.
* 1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :
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, passage=There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky?: a black night and very silent on Cimiez?; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah
As an adjective alfresco
is outdoors, open to the atmosphere.As an adverb alfresco
is outdoors; in fresh air.As a noun verandah is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.alfresco
English
Alternative forms
* al frescoAdjective
(-)- The walking district features many alfresco cafés.
Adverb
(-)- As it was a sunny afternoon, we decided to dine alfresco on the patio.
verandah
English
Noun
(en noun)- and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah , or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.
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