secco

n., pl., -cos.
The art or an example of painting on dry plaster.

adj. Music
Of or being a kind of recitative in which the words are sung rapidly to minimal accompaniment, usually just continuo.

[Italian, from Latin siccus, dry.]

Italian; dry wines.

(It.)

Short for recitative secco (‘dry recitative’), a 19th-century term for RECITATIVE accompanied only by continuo.

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[SHE-koh] Italian for dry. Semisecco is the term for "semi-dry." See also asciutto.