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Word of the Day: Pentimento

Today's Word of the Day would give Dan Brown a rush.

pentimento(pen-tuh-MEN-toh)noun. The presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.
Intriguingly, scientists think there may be a pentimento or two in the Mona Lisa.
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