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Definition of: palimpsest
(pal′imp·sest) noun
A parchment, etc., written upon two or three times, the earlier writing having been wholly or partially erased to make room for the next.
—adjective Rewritten or superinscribed. [<L palimpsestus <Gk. palimpsēstos, lit., scraped again <palin again + pseein rub]
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