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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Mitford, Bertram

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

Corporal Mignan, wrinkling a thin, parchmenty face, full of suffering and kindly cynicism, used to call them 'mes deux phénomènes.'

From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John