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  • noun Plural form of parchment.

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Examples

  • Paris, from Languedoc, Provence, or le Comtat, by my father, who dreaded, and not without reason, the inquisition which family title-deeds, and what was then styled the 'parchments' of the privileged class, brought down on the owners.

    The Commission in Lunacy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • • Furthermore, the Bible is infallible which means "without error", at least in its "original manuscripts," referring to the actual parchments on which the Biblical writers wrote their words.

    Steve McSwain: As A Fundamentalist Christian, This I Was Taught to Believe Steve McSwain 2011

  • Handling monthly comics like 1,000-year-old parchments before sealing them away in Mylar bags may be common practice among a segment of the audience (particularly those of a certain age).

    Slash Print | Following the digital evolution | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Fill your glass and let us look at the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday who dreamed their dreams on your own warm hills.

    Chapter 37 2010

  • Hap looked up sheepishly, and was glad to see the king ignoring them to scratch the parchments with the pen.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • Hap looked up sheepishly, and was glad to see the king ignoring them to scratch the parchments with the pen.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • Umber put the notebook on his lap and scooped a pile of old parchments out of the chest.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • Umber put the notebook on his lap and scooped a pile of old parchments out of the chest.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

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