parchments
Meaning of parchments
- a stiff, flat, thin material made from the prepared skin of an animal, usually a sheep or goat, and used as a durable writing surface in ancient and medieval times.
he borrowed a quill and a piece of parchment
his skin stretched like old parchment over his cheeks
parchment rolls
Middle English: from Old French parchemin, from a blend of late Latin pergamina ‘writing material from Pergamum’ and Parthica pellis ‘Parthian skin’ (a kind of scarlet leather).
Information about parchments
- It is a name.
- The singular form of parchments is: parchment.
- Languages in which parchments is used:
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Hyphenation of parchments
parch-ments
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- parchments is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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