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PENTIMENTO
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Irregular inflected form: pentimenti
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pentimento" is a kind of...):
painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)
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