PENTIMENTO

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)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pentimento (plural pentimenti)

(art) The presence or emergence of traces of previous work or image, especially of the same subject, originally in painting.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

1 February 2025

GRIP

(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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