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pentimento definition

pen·ti·mento (pen′tə men′tō)

noun

  1. Art the emergence of lines, images, etc. in a painting that become visible as oil paint grows transparent with age, thus revealing the artist's earlier ideas
  2. pl. pentimenti -·ti (-tē) any such line, image, etc.

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