vellum
vellum
Definition
vel·lum (vel′əm)
noun
- a fine kind of parchment prepared from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin, used as writing parchment or for binding books
- a manuscript written on vellum
- 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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