parch´ment|like´

parch´ment|like´: parch|ment «PAHRCH muhnt», noun.

1. the skin of sheep, goats or other animals, prepared for use as a writing material.

2. a manuscript or document written on parchment: »a parchment with the seal of Caesar (Shakespeare).

3. paper that looks like parchment, especially parchment paper.

╂[< Old French parchemin (influenced by parche bookcover < Latin parthica (pellis) Parthian leather) < Vulgar Latin pergamīnum < Late Greek pergamēnón (mémbrānon) Pergamene (skin), neuter of Greek Pergamēnós of Pérgamon Pergamum, the city of its origin]

–parch´ment|like´, adjective.

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