pentimento

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  1. noun An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age.

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  • Karaoke / ITA / neripercaso / sentimento pentimento. mid —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • But the memories are 43 years removed now; they only seem to emerge, like pentimento in an oil painting, when some other such tragedy invites comparison. —  Blog updates
 

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  1. Italian, correction, pentimento, from pentire, to repent, from Latin paenitēre.
 

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