PALIMPSEST

Palimpsest

A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped or washed off and which can be used again.

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palimpsest

Noun

  1. A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written. Many historical texts have been recovered using ultraviolet light and other technologies to read the erased writing.
  2. Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
  3. Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
  4. Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
  5. Memory that has been erased and re-written.
  6. The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
  7. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.

Verb

  1. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
  2. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by .
    Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.


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