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Noun: palimpsest  'pa-lim(p),sest
  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

Derived forms: palimpsests

Type of: holograph, manuscript

Encyclopedia: Palimpsest

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