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Word | Palimpsest |
Italian Meaning | palinsesto |
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 / A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. / parchment used for second time after original writing has been erased / a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. / a very old document on which the original writing has been erased and replaced with new writing / something that has changed over time and shows evidence of that change, | |
Usage | ⇒ Using chemical reagents, scientists have been able to restore the original writings on many palimpsests. ⇒ The ancient city is an architectural palimpsest. ⇒ By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest , or precipitate, of the writin |
Synonyms | manuscript, document, overwritten, parchment, scroll, holograph, tabula rasa, background, book, certificate, charter, circumstance, climate, codex, conditions, context, deputy, dossier, environment, event, |
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