What does parchmental mean?
Parchmental means Made of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, parchment..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Made of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, parchment..
The Same Woman.—She is the same woman you have had to deal with in your professional career, dear doctor (Gleaner). Has the same begabled frame, the same hooked beak, the same thin, neutral tinted lips, the same parchmental skin, the same supra-lateral nasal mole, the same hammer dressed saw-file voice, the same fearful masculo-feminine vesicatory tout ensemble.
The Egyptologist, seeking for new light, will discover within the parchmental pages of this little papyrus roll, many facts of interest which have not been recorded elsewhere, for instance, the astonishing revelation that even the crowned heads of the ancient lands are just as susceptible to the seductive blandishments and fascinations of that elusive game of chance, known to the initiated as “draw poker,” as are the rulers of our own Republic, who are said to semi-occasionally indulge in this pernicious pastime within the precincts of our own country’s capitol.
I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting.
That was the eldest and least parchmental of the sisters, who may, very likely, have been a pretty girl once.
Diagrams geometric, on parchmental scroll; / Circles, ovals, elliptics and such, / He sure figures will tell what is inside the knoll, / And tho far under ground, he’s in touch / With the hidden deposits of mineral ore, / And lost channels ’neath mountains he feels: […]
The atmosphere of parchmental dignity was so oppressing that she bent her knees in a curtsy as soon as she stood before his desk.
[…] and remained pale, discolored, parchmental and dry.
The tendency, in a rootless age with small regard for the elderly (either corporeal or parchmental), is to answer: “No one would or should.”
Use parchmental when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Parchmental means Made of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, parchment..
Common synonyms include parchmentlike, parchmenty.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Same Woman.—She is the same woman you have had to deal with in your professional career, dear doctor (Gleaner). Has the same begabled frame, the same hooked beak, the same thin, neutral tinted lips, the same parchmental skin, the same supra-lateral nasal mole, the same hammer dressed saw-file voice, the same fearful masculo-feminine vesicatory tout ensemble.
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