palimpsests in English
noun
1
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the ‘written’ writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest , or precipitate, of the writing.
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1. And you know, I think of all of these organisms as palimpsests.
2. Palimpsests were created by scraping the ink from existing works and reusing them, which was a common practice in the Middle Ages as vellum was expensive.