parchment
noun
the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
parchmenty
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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
From mature years I look back with a shudder upon the number of parchmenty sandwiches which I ate, the reservoirs of lemony water which I drank, in order to be in that lovely creature's society.
From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various
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
The insect has an inflated bladder-like shape, owing to the great convexity of the thin, firm, parchmenty wing-cases; the little creature being of a pale green colour.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
