murals

[myoor-uhl]

mu·ral

[myoor-uhl]
noun
1.
a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
2.
a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.
3.
a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or resembling a wall.
5.
executed on or affixed to a wall: mural inscriptions.
6.
pertaining to any of several astronomical instruments that were affixed to a wall aligned on the plane of a meridian, and were formerly used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies: a mural quadrant; a mural circle.

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Murals is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin mūrālis, equivalent to mūr(us) wall + -ālis -al1
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