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pen ti men toh

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

  • What Retired Executive Allan Coster eventually discovered was not a secret passage but precious pentimento.
  • Like a pentimento, New Orleans has long been a canvas repeatedly repainted.

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