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PENTIMENTO (pentimenti)

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Irregular inflected form: pentimenti  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pentimento mean? 

PENTIMENTO (noun)
  The noun PENTIMENTO has 1 sense:

1. the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)play

  Familiarity information: PENTIMENTO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PENTIMENTO (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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