PALIMPSEST in a Sentence

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1. It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest.
2. The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.

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 Meanings and Examples of PALIMPSEST
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palimpsest
 n.  parchment or other writing-material from which one writing has been erased or rubbed out to make room for another; something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form
Classic Sentence:
1  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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
2  "Well, Watson, it's as well we have not to turn out to-night," said Holmes, laying aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
3  It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
4  He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
Example Sentence:
1  The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.