Associations to the word «Pentimento»
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Wiktionary
PENTIMENTO, noun. The presence or emergence of traces of previous work or image, especially, of the same subject, originally in painting.
Dictionary definition
PENTIMENTO, noun. The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age).
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.