1 an ancient document from which some or all of the original text has been removed and replaced by a new text
2 (formal) something that has many different layers of meaning or detail:
a study of the novel as a palimpsest with one textual layer over another
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is palimpsest a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, palimpsest is tagged as noun.
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