PALIMPSEST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("palimpsest" is a kind of...):

holograph; manuscript (handwritten book or document)

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