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parchment

[pahrch-muhnt] / ˈpɑrtʃ mənt /
NOUN
vellum
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It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Prepare the pan: Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Researchers believe historic parchment represents a largely unexplored source of information that could connect genetics with questions traditionally studied by historians, archaeologists, and other scholars.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The text formed part of what is known as a codex, where parchment sheets were folded to create pages and marked out to create book numbers to help readers navigate.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Hazel hadn’t seen it before, but a parchment scroll was tied to the arrow shaft.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

"We've shown that we're able to extract a tremendous amount of new information from these parchments without harming them," says Breen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

There are no secret documents or Ark of the Covenant filled with parchments detailing punt returns, two-point plays or gunner lanes stored away on family property, they say.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

The National Archives rotunda where they sit is dim and chilly, for conservation reasons, and visitors shuffling past the displays can see why — the parchments are faded and hardly legible.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

The parchments are valued keepsakes, commemorating births, marriages and in this case, Holy Year pilgrimages.

From US News ● Dec. 14, 2015

Already the heat blazed down on us with a vengeance, and we were so dehydrated our tongues felt like thick, dry parchments in our mouths.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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