parchment
noun
the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
parchmenty
-
a word derived from
parchment.
Example Sentences
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Real parchmenty, with a great big heraldry and wax and stamps.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had no beard, that is, he had never in his life, probably, had to remove a hair from his parchmenty, freckled, yellow skin.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
Turning to the table she placed in his hands a document—large, parchmenty, legal-looking.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
His face was parchmenty, his cheeks sunken, his lips compressed into a long, straight line; his small grey eyes had an anxious look, yet were ever ready to twinkle into a smile.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
But this head with stretched and parchmenty skin, with the teeth whole, the hair abundant, was before our eyes as in life!
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
