Mine is “palimpsest”. I first encountered this word while reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Definition: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

I love that there’s a word for this.

  • @Knoll0114
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    11 year ago

    Florid; as in, “Wilde’s florid prose…”

    I don’t know why but it’s stuck in my mind since.