[noun] - the dried pale yellowish skin of some animals which was used in the past for writing on, a high quality paper made to look like this, or a document written on either of these materialsancient parchment [U]He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment paper. [U]A framed parchment (= document) hung on the wall. [C]
PARCHMENT
Meaning of PARCHMENT in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012