page vs palimpsest

page

noun
  • One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document. 

  • A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households. 

  • A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. 

  • Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania. 

  • The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves. 

  • The type set up for printing a page. 

  • A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. 

  • A web page. 

  • One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed. 

  • A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length. 

  • A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground. 

  • A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf. 

  • Any record or writing; a collective memory. 

verb
  • To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. 

  • To turn several pages of a publication. 

  • To furnish with folios. 

  • To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them. 

  • To attend (someone) as a page. 

palimpsest

noun
  • A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written. 

  • The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one. 

  • Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form. 

  • Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface. 

  • Memory that has been erased and re-written. 

  • Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity. 

verb
  • To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse. 

  • On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day. 

How often have the words page and palimpsest occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )