See Also: mural(medicine)
mural(dictionary)
mural(encyclopedia)
mural(2)(dictionary)
mural(1)(dictionary)
mural aneurysm(medicine)
mural thrombus(medicine)
mural thrombosis(medicine)
mural pregnancy(medicine)
mural endocarditis(medicine)

mural(2) (iou)



mural noun. L15.
[Old & mod. French muraille from Proto-Romance, repr. Latin muralia neut. pl. of muralis (see MURAL adjective) taken as fem. sing.: see -AL1. In senses 2, 3 from MURAL adjective.]
A wall. L15-M16.
A fruit tree growing against and fastened to a wall. Only in L17.
W. Boyd A huge lecture room with a dull mythological mural on three walls. R. P. Jhabvala The same motif was repeated in a mural behind the bar.
A painting executed directly on a wall or (occas.) ceiling, esp. as part of a scheme of decoration. E20.
muralist noun a painter of murals; spec. a member of a Mexican school of mural painting active in the first half of the 20th cent.: E20.