Usually means: Animal skin used for writing.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word parchment:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. parchment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parchment: Merriam-Webster
  3. parchment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parchment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parchment: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parchment: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parchment, parchment: Wordnik
  8. parchment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Parchment, parchment: Wiktionary
  10. parchment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. parchment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. parchment: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Parchment, parchment: Dictionary.com
  14. parchment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. parchment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Parchment (color), Parchment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Parchment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. parchment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. parchment: Rhymezone
  20. Parchment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. parchment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Parchment: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. parchment: FreeDictionary.org
  24. parchment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. parchment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parchment: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parchment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parchment: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Parchment: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parchment: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Parchment: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See parchments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
noun:  A document made on such material.
noun:  A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
noun:  Stiff paper imitating that material.
noun:  The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
noun:  The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
noun:  A surname.

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