parchments
- plural of parchment.
Example Sentences
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There are no secret documents or Ark of the Covenant filled with parchments detailing punt returns, two-point plays or gunner lanes stored away on family property, they say.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
The National Archives rotunda where they sit is dim and chilly, for conservation reasons, and visitors shuffling past the displays can see why — the parchments are faded and hardly legible.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018
The Vatican used to outsource the parchments to craftsmen around town, but earlier this year cancelled the work to keep all proceeds in-house.
From US News • Dec. 14, 2015
Walls are clad in paper parchments, mica and painted bamboo; while chairs are wrapped in woven and plush knitted fabrics.
From Forbes • Feb. 8, 2015
So that he went back to his enclosure, reading and rereading the parchments and listening until very late at night to Fernanda sobbing in her bedroom.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
