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parchment

[pahrch-muhnt] / ˈpɑrtʃ mənt /
NOUN
vellum
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It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

His pale, almost translucently white skin was stretched across the bones of his face like parchment.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Prepare the pan: Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Scientists have developed a way to recover cellular material from historic parchment manuscripts without damaging the documents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

His eyes were two dark pits, and the thin parchment of yellow skin clung to his bony face like dry paper.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

"Our work shows that we can collect samples without harming the parchments, which is a big step forward."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

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 parchments were knock-offs of the calligraphy-filled, personalized Apostolic Blessing parchments that are sold inside the Vatican by Francis' chief alms-giver to fund the pope's charitable efforts.

From US News ● Dec. 14, 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


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