See Also: Parchment(medicine)
parchment(dictionary)
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parchment(dictionary)
parchment skin(medicine)
parchment heart(medicine)
parchment crackling(medicine)
Chicken Baked in Parchment(recipes)
Dilled Salmon in Parchment(recipes)
Orange Roughy in Parchment Hearts(recipes)

parchment (iou)



parchment noun, adjective, & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French parchemin from Proto-Romance, ult. from blend of Latin pergamina writing material from Pergamum (see PERGAMENIAN) and Parthica pellis Parthian skin (a kind of scarlet leather).]
A. noun.
a. The skin of an animal, esp. a sheep or goat, dressed and prepared for writing, painting, bookbinding, etc. ME.
b. A high-grade paper manufactured to resemble parchment. M19.
vegetable parchment = parchment paper below.
a. A skin, piece, scroll, or roll of parchment; a manuscript or document on parchment. ME.
b. spec. A certificate. L19.
A skin or membrane resembling parchment; spec. the husk of the coffee bean. L17.
A pale yellow colour resembling that of parchment. M20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Made of, pertaining to, or existing only on parchment; of the nature or colour of parchment. L16.
Comb. & special collocations: parchment-beaver beaver skin taken in summer after the hair has been shed; parchment-coffee the coffee bean while still enclosed in its husk; parchment glue a glue made from parchment cuttings; parchment-lace (obsolete exc. Hist.) a kind of lace, braid, or cord, the core of which was parchment; parchment paper a tough, translucent, glossy kind of paper resembling parchment, made by soaking ordinary unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid; parchment-skin a piece of parchment; dry rough skin resembling parchment, as formed in xeroderma.
C. verb trans. = PARCHMENTIZE. Chiefly as parchmented ppl adjective. L19.
parchmenter noun (long obsolete exc. Hist.) a maker or seller of parchment LME.
parchmenty adjective of the nature of parchment M19.