Talk:pentimento

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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 “pentimento”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. 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)Reply

The nomination of the English entry for RFV was made by DCDuring in diff, 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)Reply

Failed. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:52, 6 July 2014 (UTC)Reply