Noun: palimpsest
| Singular | palimpsest |
| Plural | palimpsests |
Sample Sentences
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But on her he did not see even the palimpsest of a smile. [2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 329:]
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I also agree there's more instrumental development that needs doing. For all we know there's a fourth layer to the palimpsest. [1985, Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:]
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Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time. [2005, Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter:]
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... with the multilingual portmanteau words and phrases giving the text the quality of a palimpsest upon which multiple layers of textual meaning can be simultaneously detected. [2015 April 28, Martha C. Carpentier, Joycean Legacies, Springer, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like palimpsest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).
Verbs referencing "palimpsest"
Finnish Nouns
palimpsesti.