PALIMPSEST - Definition

Pronunciation:		'palimp`sest
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] 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

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	See Also:	holograph, manuscript

Products Dictionary

	Definition:	Palimpsest The autobiography of Gore Vidal, who has always said he would never write one: from his birth in 1925 at West Point through his life as a page to his grandfather, including St. Albans school; the army; gay life in New York in the 1940s and 1950s; Hollywood; politics; and a cast of characters including the Kennedys, Anais Nin, Truman Capote, and the Clintons. Includes 32 pages of b&w; photographs. more details ...

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Pal"imp*sest\, n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. ? scratched or scraped again, ? a palimpsest; ? again + ? to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste.] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. --Longfellow.