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parchment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parchment \Parch"ment\ (p[aum]rch"ment), n. [OE. parchemin, perchemin, F. parchemin, LL. pergamenum, L. pergamena, pergamina, fr. L. Pergamenus of or belonging to Pergamus an ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor, where parchment was first used.]
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The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
But here's a parchment with the seal of C[ae]sar.
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The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Parchment paper. See Papyrine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, parchemin (c.1200 as a surname), from Old French parchemin (11c., Old North French parcamin), from Late Latin pergamena "parchment," noun use of adjective (as in pergamena charta, Pliny), from Late Greek pergamenon "of Pergamon," from Pergamon "Pergamum" (modern Bergama), city in Mysia in Asia Minor where parchment supposedly first was adopted as a substitute for papyrus, 2c. B.C.E. Possibly influenced in Vulgar Latin by Latin parthica (pellis) "Parthian (leather)." Altered in Middle English by confusion with nouns in -ment and by influence of Medieval Latin collateral form pergamentum.
Wiktionary
n. 1 material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. 2 A document made on such material. 3 A diploma (traditionally written on parchment). 4 Stiff paper imitating that material. 5 The creamy to tanned color of parchment. 6 The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
WordNet
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Water area (2000): 0.033619 sq. miles (0.087074 sq. km)
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Wikipedia
Parchment is a material made from processed animal skin and used—mainly in the past—for writing on.
Parchment is most commonly made of calfskin, sheepskin, or goatskin. It was historically used for writing documents, notes, or the pages of a book. Parchment is limed, scraped and dried under tension. It is not tanned, and is thus different from leather. This makes it more suitable for writing on, but leaves it very reactive to changes in relative humidity and makes it revert to rawhide if overly wet.
It may be called animal membrane by libraries and museums that wish to avoid distinguishing between "parchment" and the more restricted term " vellum" (see below).
Parchment is a thin material most often used as pages of a book or manuscript.
Parchment may also refer to:
- Parchment paper (baking)
- Parchment, Michigan, a small city in the United States
- Parchment Housing Group, now Guinness Trust, a British charity providing affordable housing
- Parchment, a tough chitinous material used by many species of worm to line their burrows
Usage examples of "parchment".
The bardling drew out the sealed parchment the old Bard had given him and held it up so whoever was behind the door could see it There was a long moment of silence.
It flooded out: suggestion spells, the Blooded parchment through which he had listened in on the Conselhos meeting, the careful use of blood and tears to create a spelled painting.
From inside the folds of his voluminous robes he produced parchment and ink, then set about writing a short note explaining that he was going to return to the merchant caravan and escort them to Palmaris.
With the aid of Merel Zabio, who grabbed his left wrist and hauled while he was still using his right hand to ram the hastily furled parchment into his shirt, he somehow managed to wriggle out on to the steeply slanted tiles.
Parchment Paper and Parchment Slates -- Double and Triple Osmotic Parchment -- Utilising Waste Parchment Paper -- Parchmented Linen and Cotton -- Parchment Millboard -- Imitation Horn and Ivory from Parchment Paper -- Imitation Parchment Paper -- Artificial Parchment -- Testing the Sulphuric Acid.
Now, as then, the Rolls Chapel was silent and smelled mustily of old parchment and ancient stone.
And beneath its beauty something unfathomable, as though the field itself had become a living sign, a pictogram like those the outlanders used to freeze breath onto stone and parchment.
There was an assortment of knives, novacula and rasoriums, rulers, regula, linula, normas, needle and thread to repair parchment if torn, and a dozen or so assorted covered pots, one of which contained a particularly odious-smelling dried glue.
The parchment has been reinscribed, so the writing must be recovered by chemical means.
Greek and Latin scribes were known to recycle parchment whenever they ran short, erasing one text by soaking the leaves in milk and then scrubbing at the ink with a pumice-stone before reinscribing the surface, now blank, with a new one, so that one text lay dormant and hidden between the lines of another.
It was locked, but the lock was a poor one that yielded to half a dozen blows of the spontoon, and they passed into a little room beyond which by an open door they came into a long gallery lined with pigeon-holes stuffed with parchments, which they conceived to be the archives.
He pointed to a parchment scroll waiting on the small, slanted desk, a tonsured scribe holding out an inked quill expectantly.
This, also written in black letter, we found inscribed on a second parchment that was in the coffer, apparently somewhat older in date than that on which was inscribed the mediaeval Latin translation of the uncial Greek of which I shall speak presently.
Grinning mischievously, Hawk backed away and uncrumpled the parchment.
With the assistance of one of his aides, he unfolded a long parchment map on a wooden frame, then took his place beside it.