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- noun Plural form of
parchment .
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Examples
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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
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• 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
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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