alla prima

[ah-luh pree-muh]

al·la pri·ma

[ah-luh pree-muh]
noun Fine Arts.
a painting technique in which a canvas is completed in one session, often having a thickly applied impasto.

Origin:
< Italian: literally, at the first
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Alla prima is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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alla prima (ˈɑːlɑː ˈpriːmə)
 
adj
(of a painting) painted with a single layer of paint, in contrast to paintings built up layer by layer
 
[C19: from Italian: at once]

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