PALIMPSEST

(noun) 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
The Archimedes palimpsest is supposed to consist of 174 parchment folios. -added by naila_inlas

Mnemonics for palimpsest

(Tag: ) sounds like pamphlet , and a palimpsest is a sort of pamphlet .
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(Tag: ) limp + sets -> sets of paper that has gone limp due to erasing and rewriting.
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(Tag: ) you wrote a phone number on your palm and after an hour you wrote address on same palm with previous no. slightly visible...
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(Tag: ) my midget PAL was a victim of incest, wait, cross out n and c and change that to iMPSest
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(Tag: compiling all mnemonics) palm(or phamplet)gone limp by rewriting and rubbing...
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(Tag: ) Pa(piece)+limp(about to erased or vanished )+set=piece is used for set which is about to erase or vanish
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