1 [U] material made from the skin of a sheep or goat, used in the past for writing on:
parchment scrolls * Her skin felt like parchment (= very dry).
2 [U] a thick yellowish type of paper:
a sheet of non-stick baking parchment
3 [C] a document written on a piece of parchment
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