Palimpsest

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Palimpsests
possessive: Palimpsest's
pluralpossessive: Palimpsests'

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