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palimpsest

pa·limp·sest

US/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/ uncommon archaic

noun

1.

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

Origin

From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

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