Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of the skin characterized by scattered pigmented telangiectatic and atrophic spots, with contraction of the skin, usually followed by epitheliomatous patches and ulceration.
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Examples
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We called him a poet; is not his body the (stuffed) parchment-skin whereon he writes, with cunning
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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The mesh-work is made of thongs usually cut from the parchment-skin of a deer, and twisted.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The mesh-work is made of thongs usually cut from the parchment-skin of a deer, and twisted.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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We called him a Poet: is not his body the (stuffed) parchment-skin whereon he writes, with cunning Huddersfield dyes, a Sonnet to his mistress 'eyebrow?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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