The eraser you lent me doesn't work very well, which combined with my perfectionism led to my sketch looking like a palimpsest.
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Palimpsest
//ˈpælɪmpsɛst//
Synonyms for "palimpsest" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
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Translations
24 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παλίμψηστος noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Arabic
1 entries- طِرْس noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Asturian
1 entries- palimpsestu noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Czech
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Dutch
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
French
1 entries- palimpseste noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Galician
1 entries- palimpsesto noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
German
1 entries- Palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Greek
1 entries- παλίμψηστος noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Hungarian
1 entries- palimpszeszt noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Icelandic
3 entries- skafgígur noun (astronomy: Circular features believed to be lunar craters obliterated by volcanic activity)
- skafið handrit noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
- uppskafningur noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Italian
1 entries- palinsesto noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Latin
1 entries- palimpsēstus noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Norwegian
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Polish
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Portuguese
1 entries- palimpsesto noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Romanian
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Russian
1 entries- палимпсе́ст noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Slovene
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Spanish
1 entries- palimpsesto noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Swedish
1 entries- palimpsest noun (manuscript scraped clean for reuse)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
But on her he did not see even the palimpsest of a smile.
Source: wiktionary
Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time.
Source: wiktionary
... with the multilingual portmanteau words and phrases giving the text the quality of a palimpsest upon which multiple layers of textual meaning can be simultaneously detected.
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