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# parchment

«parchment» in Mova's school dictionary: **A material for writing on, made long ago from the thin…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (parchment — uncountable; a parchment, parchments for a document)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A material for writing on, made long ago from the thin, dried skin of a sheep, goat or calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#m1)

2) A document written on it: an old parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#m2)

3) Thick, stiff, yellowish paper made to look like it (parchment paper); also baking paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

History lessons: medieval books, charters and Magna Carta (1215) were written on parchment. Stories: treasure maps and old scrolls. In Alice in Wonderland the White Rabbit unrolls a parchment scroll to read out the accusation at the trial. Cooking: line the tin with baking parchment.

### examples

- Magna Carta was written on parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x1)
- The White Rabbit unrolled the parchment scroll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x2)
- The pirate's map was drawn on old parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x3)
- Monks copied books onto parchment by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x4)
- Line the cake tin with baking parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x5)
- The old man's skin looked like parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x6)
- We made our certificates look like parchment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x7)
- CLIO, the muse of History, holds in her hand a roll of parchment, and wears a wreath of laurel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/#x8)

### note

Uncountable as a material (a sheet of parchment); countable for documents (old parchments). «Vellum» is fine parchment made from calfskin.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parchment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parchment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.