parchment
Collocations
4ADJ.
ancient, dusty, pressed, yellowed
VERB + PARCHMENT
decipher, eat, fill, roll, swallows, wrote
PARCHMENT + NOUN
foolscap, sky
PREP.
on, onto, with
Definitions
noun
Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
Never found Hattie and they never found the shack Never made the trip back in There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump Said: Don't come lookin' again.
A document made on such material.
A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
Stiff paper imitating that material.
The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
name
A surname.
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6At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the lunc
WiktionaryNever found Hattie and they never found the shack Never made the trip back in There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump Said: Don't come lookin' again.
WiktionarySwallows fill the parchment of the sky with signatures in honor of the good weather.
Tatoeba · #6284947You didn't tell me what you wrote on the parchment.
Tatoeba · #9019938With this parchment that should be his buckler against any future need, Sir Oliver rode home, uplifted.
Tatoeba · #11020531Dmitri was trying to decipher an ancient parchment.
Tatoeba · #11805142