单词	parchment
释义	parchmentparch‧ment /ˈpɑːtʃmənt $ ˈpɑːr-/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINparchment Origin: 1200-1300 Old French parchemin, from Latin pergamena, from Greek, from Pergamenos ‘of Pergamum’, ancient city in Turkey Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A moth thudded into the parchment lampshade and blundered round, trying to escape. Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall. He undid the top and drew out a thick, yellowing roll of parchment. So we put together a parchment scroll of information on various last names-we did it for about a dozen names. Some were open to reveal rolls of parchment spilling out on to the floor. The clerks studied the parchment curiously. They can see and handle parchment and paper. Where can I get parchment paper? word sets WORD SETS► History age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun 1[uncountable] a material used in the past for writing on, made from the skin of a sheep or a goat2[uncountable] thick yellow-white writing paper, sometimes used for official documents3[countable] a document written on parchment
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