8 example sentences using palimpsest.
Palimpsest used in a sentence
Palimpsest in a sentence as a noun
Will anyone remember how to scrape a palimpsest clean in ten years?
The "Southern way of life" is a palimpsest and a shibboleth.
Hey palimpsest, I can’t see an email on your profile, is there a way to get in touch?
"Experts disagree" is a palimpsest of what it actually says.
Perhaps I'll start doing the same with passages from the web, as an intentional slowing-down of the process of textual palimpsest generation...
Pastiche, palimpsest, and bricolage are all valid expressive forms which excerpt or rewrite liberally from source material.
A palimpsest is a pretty elegant physical representation of human memory.
The words in the article aren't particularly difficult for a native English speaker certainly not 'sediment' with the exception of 'palimpsest', for which he linked to the Wikipedia entry.
Palimpsest definitions
a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible