parchment
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parchment/ˈpɑːtʃmənt/
▶noun
- 1 a stiff material made from the prepared skin of a sheep or goat, formerly used as a writing surface.
- 2 (also parchment paper) stiff translucent paper treated to resemble parchment.
- 3 informal a diploma or other formal document.
– origin ME: from OFr. parchemin, from a blend of late L. pergamina ‘writing material from Pergamum’ and Parthica pellis ‘Parthian skin’ (a kind of scarlet leather).
'parchment' also found in these Oxford entries:
banjo
- deed poll
- enrol
- folio
- mezuzah
- palimpsest
- panel
- Patent Roll
- point lace
- pounce
- quire
- scroll
- scrolled
- vellum
- volume
