Sentence example with the word 'vellum'

vellum

Definition n. a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment

Last update: September 28, 2015


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In 1875 Arnold Toynbee paid a visit, the first of many, to Whitechapel, and Mr Barnett, who kept in constant touch with Oxford, formed in 1877 a small committee, over which he presided himself, to consider the organization of university extension in London, his chief assistants being Leonard Montefiore, a young Oxford man, and Frederick Rogers, a member of the vellum binders' trade union.   [Please select]

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The skin of the calf is extensively used in the binding of books, and the thinnest of the calf skins are manufactured into vellum.   [Please select]

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Knox, sit down," he said, sweeping a vellum-bound volume of Eliphas Levi from a chair, and pushing the chair forward."   [Please select]

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She took up a little vellum-bound book which she had laid at night upon her dressing-table.   [Please select]

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VELLUM, a fine kind of parchment, made of the skin of a lamb, goat, sheep or young calf, for writing on.   [Please select]

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About the fifth century the important step of folding the vellum into leaves became the practice.   [Please select]

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