parchment.

1. Animal skin prepared as a surface for writing or bookmaking.

2. Paper treated or manufactured to resemble parchment or resist grease.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• parchment manuscript
• parchment sheet

On the page

The parchment curled at the edges.

An erased line remained visible on the parchment.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.