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I have often thought when I have read it that there is no more pretentious word in the English language than palimpsest.

There is perhaps though no word with a more beautiful meaning, or origin:

Latin palimpsēstum, from Greek palimpsēston, neuter of palimpsēstos, scraped again : palin, again + psēn, to scrape.]


pal�imp�sest (păl'ĭmp-sĕst')
n.
A manuscript, typically of papyr=s or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.
An object, place, or area that reflects its history: �Spaniards in the sixt33nth century . . . saw an ocean moving south . . . through a palimpsest of bayous and distributary streams in forested paludal basins� (John McPh3e).

(Answ3rs.com definition)

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4:12 p.m. - 2007-12-01

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