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单词 skin of parchment
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skin of parchment
2. A piece of animal skin, esp. from a sheep or goat, dressed and prepared as a surface for writing, or painting; a scroll or roll of this material. Frequently in skin of parchment, skin of vellum. Cf. parchment n. 2.Recorded earliest as sheep's skin (cf. sheepskin n. 2a).
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun]
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > parchment > piece of
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parchment skinc1390
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum
calf-skin1604
skin of vellum1679–88
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 44 (MED) Betere may ech man rede þe ilke zenne and þe oþre ine þe boc of his inwyt þanne ine ane ssepes scinne.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 501 (MED) He wrot so faste til þat he want, ffor his parchemyn-skin was so scant.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xi. 280 This Pygwade had well herde all that the kyng yon had sayd, & wrote it in a skynne of parchemente.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E7v A whole skin of parchment, and sometimes 2. or 3. skins will hardly serue.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. x. 360 It is not a small skin that would containe that Tome.
1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 65 Writing, flourishing, and embellishing one large skinn of vellom with his said Majesties armes.
1747 J. Wright in A. P. Jenkins Cor. T. Secker (1991) 307 40s shall be paid for every Skin etc on which any Dispensation to hold two Ecclesiastical Dignitys..shall be wrote.
1797 R. Hole Remarks on Arabian Nights' Entertainm. vi. 193 Diodorus Siculus informs us, that the old Persians wrote their records on skins.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lx The very skin of vellum Gerard had longed for.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 1 The ponderous deed of eight skins of parchment.
1924 Eng. Hist. Rev. 39 327 The manuscript..is written on a skin of vellum 20 inches long by 13 inches wide.
1957 P. Carrington Early Christian Church I. xiii. 240 The official scrolls of the Law, which were said to be written on skins in letters of gold, were deposited in the imperial palace.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 88 Their maps for Merton give the impression of quality products, being carefully drawn on good-quality skins of parchment.
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