parchment
/ˈpɑrtʃ·mənt/ n [C/U]Definition
› the dried, pale skin of some animals which was used in the past for writing on, or a paper made to look like this: [U] I found a scrap of parchment dating from the 17th century.
(Definition of parchment n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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