Crossword-Solution: PALIMPSEST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palimpsest | n. | A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PALIMPSEST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Recycled paper from long ago | 1 answer |
| Reworked parchment | 1 answer |
| writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times | 1 answer |
| Papyrus | 8 answers |
| Parchment | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PALIMPSEST (5)
Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery.
Tracing this wild changing channel-gorge, gully, or cañon, the sections will show Mount Shasta as a huge palimpsest, containing the records, layer upon layer, of strangely contrasted events in its fiery-icy history.
Mai has since that time discovered further fragments, and other remains of Moeso-Gothic literature, from a Palimpsest at Milan.
Such a record or phonogram, as it was then called, could be removed from the machine or replaced at any time, many reproductions could be obtained without wearing out the record, and whenever desired the record could be shaved off by a turning-tool so as to present a fresh surface on which a new record could be formed, something like an ancient palimpsest.
Nay, if we are convinced by some antiquaries, the eastern end of the High Street contains even earlier scratches on this palimpsest of Oxford; the rude marks of savages who scooped out their damp nests, and raised their low walls in the gravel, on the spot where the new schools are to stand.
Quotes with PALIMPSEST (3)
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.
It is as if the Caru'ee were able to perceive an echo of the past, and unconsciously, as they built upon a palimpsest of books written long ago and long forgotten, chanced to stumble upon an essence of meaning that could not be lost, no matter how much time had passed.
Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life — like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2021).