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mu·ral adjective /ˈmjʊərəl/ /ˈmjʊrəl/ [only before noun]- (of a painting) large and done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a building壁画Topics Artc2
mu·ral noun /ˈmjʊərəl/ /ˈmjʊrəl/ - a painting, usually a large one, done on a wall, sometimes on an outside wall of a building壁画
- murals depicting Aesop’s fables讲述《伊索寓言》的壁画
Topics Houses and homesc1, Artc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + muralmural + verb- depict something
- show something
Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin muralis, from murus ‘wall’. The adjective was first used in mural crown; later (mid 16th cent.) the sense ‘placed or executed on a wall’ arose, reflected in the current noun use (dating from the early 20th cent.).
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