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vellum [ˈvɛləm] n 1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a fine parchment prepared from the skin of a calf, kid, or lamb 2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a work printed or written on vellum 3. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum adj
1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) made of or resembling vellum 2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (of a book) bound in vellum [from Old French velin, from velin of a calf, from veel veal] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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There was brother Bartholomew with a crucifix of rare carved ivory, and brother Luke With a white-backed psalter adorned with golden bees, and brother Francis with the "Slaying of the Innocents" most daintily set forth upon vellum. All that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the old library of her fathers had been brought out to this little woodland library, and to that nucleus of old leather-bound poets and romancers, long since dead, yet as alive and singing on their shelves as any bird on the sunny boughs outside, my young lady's private purse had added all that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the vellum bound Japanese-paper literature of our own luxurious day. She put back the page of vellum in her writing-desk, locked it, and led the way to the door. |
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