palimpsestnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpæl.ɪm.sest//ˈpæl.ɪmp.sest/a very old text or document in which writing has been removed and covered or replaced by new writing
formal something such as a work of art that has many levels of meaning, types of style, etc. that build on each other:
His performance is a palimpsest in which you see all the layers of a single life.
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Pieces of writing
- acrostic
- caption
- creative writing
- doodle
- encomium
- excerpt
- fair copy
- fair sth out
- jottings
- manuscript
- microblog
- ms
- paragraph
- passage
- preamble
- record
- squiggle
- text
- typescript
- writing
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Covering and adding layers