Usually means: Manuscript written on, scraped clean.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. palimpsest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. palimpsest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. palimpsest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. palimpsest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. palimpsest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Palimpsest, palimpsest: Wordnik
  7. palimpsest: Wiktionary
  8. palimpsest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. palimpsest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. palimpsest: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Palimpsest, palimpsest: Dictionary.com
  12. palimpsest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Palimpsest (disambiguation), Palimpsest (novel), Palimpsest (novella), Palimpsest (planetary astronomy), Palimpsest, The Palimpsest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Palimpsest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. palimpsest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. palimpsest: Rhymezone
  17. Palimpsest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. palimpsest: Free Dictionary
  19. palimpsest: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. palimpsest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. palimpsest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Palimpsest: World Wide Words
  23. Palimpsest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palimpsest: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palimpsest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palimpsest: A Word A Day
  2. palimpsest: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palimpsest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See palimpsesting as well.)

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noun:  A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
noun:  (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
noun:  (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
noun:  (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
noun:  (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
noun:  (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
noun:  Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
noun:  A text with several layers of meaning, especially pertaining to different points in time.
verb:  To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
verb:  On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

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