mural

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).

Corriston ascended the staircase swiftly, casting one brief glance at some murals and then ignoring them. — Space Station 1, Frank Belknap Long
There was a sharp crackling noise and the heat chipped myriads of flakes off the stone walls, leaving a gray path across the rich murals, and the air was filled with flying particles. — Astounding Stories, August, 1931, Various
Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the things they had superseded--run back, before we had seen what we did see, and before our minds were burned with something which will never let us breathe easily again! — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

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