Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 June 10

= June 10 =

Trying to remember a word
I ran across a definition a while back and now I can't remember the word for it. Could anyone help? The word was defined as having painted over an older painting or using an old canvas. There's a word for it that, for the life of me, I just can't recall and it's really bugging me. Thanks, Dismas |(talk) 00:37, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You don't mean palimpsest by any chance? That is the reuse of parchment, rather than cavas, but it has a similar meaning. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:40, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Pentimento. Matt Deres (talk) 00:43, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Apparently, I was wrong about the definition as well. I was thinking of palimpsest but now have a new word with pentimento!  Thanks to both of you, not only for helping me remember what I had forgotten but adding to what I know as well!  Dismas |(talk) 01:02, 10 June 2013 (UTC)