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Palimpsest

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Noun

1. palimpsest

a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Palimpsest

see synonyms of palimpsest
noun
1. 
a manuscript on which two or more successive texts have been written, each one being erased to make room for the next
adjective
2. 
(of a text) written on a palimpsest
3. 
(of a document) used as a palimpsest

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Palimpsest

see synonyms of palimpsest
noun
a parchment, tablet, etc. that has been written upon or inscribed two or three times, the previous text or texts having been imperfectly erased and remaining, therefore, still partly visible

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Palimpsest

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n.
1. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely scraped off or erased and often legible.
2. An object or area that has extensive evidence of or layers showing activity or use: "My skin had become a palimpsest of fleeting sensations, and each layer bore the imprint of who I was" (Paul Auster).

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