Parchment

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  • noun. The skin of a sheep or goat prepared as a material on which to write or paint.
  • noun. A written text or drawing on a sheet of this material.
  • noun. Paper made in imitation of this material.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To convert into parchment; parchemin.
  • To cause to become hard, tough, and wrinkled, as the skin in certain diseases.
  • noun. The skin of sheep or goats prepared for use as a writing-material and for other purposes.
  • noun. The cartilaginous sheath or hull of the coffee-bean.
  • noun. A document written on parchment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See vellum.
  • noun. The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
  • noun. See Papyrine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
  • noun. A document made on such material.
  • noun. A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
  • noun. Stiff paper imitating that material.
  • noun. The creamy to tanned color of parchment
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
  • noun. a superior paper resembling sheepskin
  • Hypernym
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    paper  
    Same Context
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    Synonym
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    article  autograph  biscuit  blank  bone  
    variant
    vellum