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

27 December 2024

OBLIGATE

(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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