Talk:pentimento

RFV discussion: February–July 2014
Rfv-sense: "An alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his or her mind as to the composition during the process of painting."
 * The definitions at seem to principally say that it is the trace of previous work that constitutes the pentimento, which is also consistent with this quote from an unknown source: “With the passage of time and a cascade of fawning magazine covers, Bill Clinton’s image has evolved, leaving the repellent sexual scandals a pentimento in a new, more magnetic portrait.”. DCDuring TALK  20:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

The nomination of the English entry for RFV was made by DCDuring in, where he RFVed an existing definition and added his own definition instead. I am not sure this is a good practice. Neither the entry page nor citations page has any quotations, so a choice between the two definitions cannot be made based on quotations. The quotation provided by DCDuring above is a figurative use of the word, so does not serve well. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:52, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (falai) 22:52, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Pentiment(i)
Everything I've found says is a plurale tantum. Neither DWDS or Duden has an entry for, and a quick Google search shows far less German-language results for than. Binarystep (talk) 22:53, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * hmmm, I was following Pentimenti which said that the Germanized version was, though I accept that Wikipedia is not always the most reliable source. OK, let's restore and mark it clearly as a plurale tantum. (By the way, is it a feminine noun? I also added Reuestriche which is mentioned in the German Wikipedia article – please check it.) — Sgconlaw (talk) 08:14, 17 April 2022 (UTC)