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palimpsest
A palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been either scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused, for another document. Parchment and other materials for writing or engraving upon were expensive to produce, and in the interest of economy were re-used wherever possible. In colloquial usage, the term ''palimpsest'' is also used in architecture, archaeology, and geomorphology, to denote an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another, for example a monumental brass the reverse blank side of which has been re-engraved.
== Etymology ==
The word "palimpsest" derives from the Latin ''palimpsestus'', form the Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (''palímpsestos'', "scratched again", "scraped again") originally compounded from ψάω (''psao'', "to scrape") and πάλιν (''palin'', "again"), thus meaning "scraped clean and used again". The Ancient Romans wrote (literally scratched on letters) on wax-coated tablets, which were easily re-smoothed and reused; Cicero's use of the term "palimpsest" confirms such a practice.
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