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- noun Plural form of
vellum .
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Examples
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Adolphus were ravaging the cities of Germany; and Laud's agents were always at hand to rescue the fair books and vellums from the Swedish pikemen.
The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869
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There are also handmade papers infused with botanicals or intertwined with fine gold threads, deckle-edged paper with hand-painted borders in rich metallic tones, an assortment of stunning vellums or “translucents,” and a dazzling array of thirty-two-pound “opalescent” metallics.
Weddings Valentine Style Diann Valentine 2006
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These tall Socinians are the Polish brethren, and the dumpy vellums overhead are Dutch divines.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Library, where are nearly twenty thousand MSS., some of which are the most richly-illuminated vellums that are known.
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For most houses, however, a plain bond, linen, or the vellums and hand-made papers that are coming into favor, furnish the best letter paper.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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The details of Constantine's coins are found in the ivory dyptics and those splendidly illuminated Gospel vellums which art-despising monks kneeled upon from the seventh to the tenth century, and which art-loving monks, even in the middle of the nineteenth century, used in the decoration of their monastery halls at Mount Athos.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Nine, at least, exist elsewhere in ancient vellums.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The language of the ogham stones is in fact centuries older than that of the very oldest vellums, and agrees to a large extent to what has been found of the old Gaulish linguistic monuments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Some, however, exist at nearly full length, although probably in no case are they written down in the ancient vellums in just the same manner as they would have been recounted by the professional poet, for the writers of most of the early vellums were not the poets but generally Christian monks, who took an interest and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The library of Trinity College, Dublin, also contains a great number of valuable manuscripts of all ages, many of them vellums, probably about 160.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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