parchment

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  1. noun The skin of a sheep or goat prepared as a material on which to write or paint.
  2. noun A written text or drawing on a sheet of this material.
  3. noun Paper made in imitation of this material.

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  • Your responsibility is at an end when you sign this parchment, which is an abdication in favor of Prince Arpello of Pellia. —  Wings in the Night
  • Malcolm made her put it where it was well out of sight on that patch of lawn surrounded by shrubs, because he didn't like it. —  Hot Money
  • Soon he, Weegee, and Cautious were rolling about on the ground, holding their sides. —  The Time of the Transference
  • Directly he looked at it he raised himself higher up--turned it about once or twice--then caught up the piece of parchment, and uttering an ejaculation which no one could have distinguished either as of joy or of pain, sank back fainting In brief, this parchment was a portion of the title-deeds he had lost; and though it did not prove sufficient to enable him to recover his fortune, it brought his opponent to a composition, which gave him an annuity for life. —  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850
  • Look at the parchment - and it is parchment, which is another clue. " —  Scion of Cyador
 

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  1. Middle English parchemin, parchement (influenced by Medieval Latin pergamentum), from Old French parchemin, from Late Latin pergamīna, variant of Latin pergamēna, from feminine of Pergamēnus, of Pergamum, from Greek Pergamēnos, after Pergamon (Pergamum).

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  1. from Middle English parchement, parchment (with excrescent t as in other Teutonic languages), usually parchemin, parchemyn, perchemin, from Old French parchemin, perchemin, parcamin, French parchemin =Spanish pergamino =Portuguese pergaminho =Italian pergamena =D. perkament =Middle Low German perment, permet, permint =Old High German permint, perment, permit, bermint, berment, bermcit, pirmcit, birmint =Middle High German pergement, pergmcit,G. pergament =Swedish Danish pergament, from Latin pergamēna, pergamīna (also in full charta Pergamena, ’paper of Pergamum’), from Greek Περγαμηνή, parchment, literally ‘paper of Pergamum,’ properly adjective (sc. διφθέρα, ‘skin of Pergamum,’ or χάρτη, ‘paper of Pergamum’), feminine of Περγαμηνός, (later L. Pergamēnus), of Pergamum, from Πέργαμος, Πέργαμον, Pergamus, Pergamum, a city of Mysia in Asia Minor, whence parchment was originally brought.
  2. from parchment, n.
 

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