noun
- plural of parchment; sheets of writing material made from treated animal skin, or documents written on such material
Examples
- The ancient parchments were carefully preserved in the museum.
- Medieval scribes wrote on parchments made from sheepskin.
- The library’s collection includes several illuminated parchments.
- Archaeologists discovered rolled parchments in the cave.
- The legal parchments bore the king’s official seal.
- Scholars studied the faded text on the old parchments.