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vellum Definition

vel·lum (veləm)

noun

  1. a fine kind of parchment prepared from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin, used as writing parchment or for binding books
  2. a manuscript written on vellum
  3. a strong paper made to resemble vellum

Etymology: ME velim < MFr velin, vellum, prepared calfskin < OFr veel: see veal

adjective

of or like vellum

vellum Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • ty: Each volume retains its original early C17th wrappers of thin white paper, now within early C20th bindings of limp vellum with ties.

Converse of object

  • make: The bleached hide of cows made the vellum upon which the very stories in this present book were originally recorded by clerics.
  • line: Late 17th-century binding of limp vellum lined with gray card, inscribed ' Bassus Cantoris ' on the outside upper cover.

Adjective modifier

  • limp: Now within an early 20th-century binding of limp vellum with the remains of ribbon ties.
  • purple: At Leningrad, written in gold letters on purple vellum.
  • white: Mid 17th-century binding of white vellum over boards; edges partly colored with red and blue stripes.
  • translucent: Select from translucent vellum to reveal the colored stock beneath, or a crisp opaque white for contrast against darker backgrounds.
  • large: Collection of thirty large sheet vellum indentures from the 19th c.
  • thin: It is written in silver letters, in very narrow columns, on extremely thin vellum stained with purple.

Modifies a noun

  • indenture: Group of early large sheet vellum indentures, all dating back to the 18th c.
  • volume: CONTENT Scope and content/abstract: A vellum bound volume describing fourteen voyages to India, Malaya and the East Indies in several ships.
  • sheet: Making the Pages The Lindisfarne Gospels are painted on vellum sheets made from calf skin.
  • paper: You can use brilliant white paper or if you want to be distinctive and different you might try cream or vellum paper.
  • scroll: The library is said to have contained hundreds of thousands of papyrus and vellum scrolls.
  • page: The holy text is written on vellum pages in Hebrew script, reading from right to left.

Noun used with modifier

  • sheet: Group of early large sheet vellum indentures, all dating back to the 18th c.

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