Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.

Nor would universal healing arrive with the Sabbath candlesticks from Poland that had been in Rina Lubit’s family for five generations or with the khimar, a scarf to cover a Muslim woman’s face, that was handed down from Tayssir Abdullah’s great-grandmother in Yemen.

That version of the program has been put out to pasture.

In his 1965 paper about his nonproof of the Poincaré Conjecture[…] Dr. Stallings ended on a musing note: