Noun: parchment
| Singular | parchment |
| Plural | parchments |
Sample Sentences
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At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs. [1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
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Never found Hattie and they never found the shack
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Never made the trip back in
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There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump
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Said: Don't come lookin' again. [1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:]
Nouns inflected like parchment
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English parchemyn, parchement, from Old French parchemin, via Latin pergamīna, from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνός (Pergamēnós, “of Pergamon”), which is named for the ancient city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) in Asia Minor, where it was invented as an expensive alternative for papyrus. Cognate with Danish pergament, Dutch perkament, French parchemin, German Pergament, Greek περγαμηνή (pergaminí), Italian pergamena, Norwegian pergament, Portuguese pergaminho, Galician pergameo, Romanian pergament, Russian пергамент (pergament), Spanish pergamino, and Swedish pergament. See: Middle English Nouns '
parchemyn', Latin Nouns '
pergamīna', Dutch Nouns '
perkament', French Nouns '
parchemin', German Nouns '
Pergament', Greek Nouns '
περγαμηνή', Italian Nouns '
pergamena', Portuguese Nouns '
pergaminho', Galician Nouns '
pergameo', Romanian Nouns '
pergament', Russian Nouns '
пергамент', Spanish Nouns '
pergamino', Swedish Nouns '
pergament'.
Verbs referencing "parchment"
Galician Nouns
pergameo, Galician Nouns
pergamiño.