See Also: Parchment(medicine)
parchment(dictionary)
parchment(encyclopedia)
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)

jig 2, verb (oh) and parchment (sh)


jig 2, verb (oh)



2 past tense and past participle jigged present participle jigging
v [I always + adverb/preposition]
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Probably from French giguer 'to Dance', from Old French gigue 'violin']
to Dance or move up and down with quick short movements

parchment (sh)




Processed skins of certain animals (chiefly sheep, goats, and calves) that have been prepared for the purpose of Writing on them.

Parchment was probably invented in Greece in the 2nd century BC. Skins had been used for Writing material even earlier (งใ 2400 BC), but the new, more thorough method of cleaning, stretching, and scraping made possible the use of both sides of a manuscript leaf, leading to the replacement of the rolled manuscript by the bound book (codex). Especially fine parchment is known as vellum. In modern usage, the terms "parchment" and "vellum" are sometimes used for a type of high-quality paper.