palimpsest
Speech parts
1. palimpsest - Noun
2. palimpsest - Verb
Meaning
A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
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Examples
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
At the Walters Art Museum where the palimpsest is now conserved, the project has focused on experimental techniques to retrieve the remaining text, some of which was obscured by overpainted icons.
An exception is the Archimedes palimpsest (see below).