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Real parchmenty, with a great big heraldry and wax and stamps.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Gissing, George

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

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 Verne, Jules

You would not think," she began, with an air of modest pride, "that I belong to the booky and the parchmenty people, but I do.

From The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls by Meade, L. T.