| 单词 | parchment skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparchment skin parchment skin n. †(a) a piece of parchment (obsolete); (b) skin resembling parchment; (also) †a disease resulting in this, esp. xeroderma (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > excessive dryness parchment skinc1390 xeroderma1848 xerodermia1891 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > parchment > piece of skin of parchment1340 parchmenta1350 parchment skinc1390 press1405 panel1628 c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 501 (MED) He wrot so faste til þat he want, ffor his parchemyn-skin was so scant. 1680 Minutes Hudson's Bay Co. (1945) I. 21 Ordered that the said Mar. Bifeild and Mar. Wilkinson doe distinguish of the said Parchmt. Skinns making 200 skinns in each Lott as of the Coate. 1737 H. Baker Famine in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 338 Her Guts appear'd within With snaky Curlings thro' her Parchment Skin. 1874 W. Tay tr. F. Hebra & M. Kaposi On Dis. Skin III. xlv. 252 (heading) Atrophia cutis idiopathica diffusa. Xeroderma, parchment skin. 1969 Lancet 18 Oct. 853/1 This finding of ‘parchment-skin’ palms is evidently not peculiar to any single cytogenetic disorder. 1991 S. Hill Air & Angels vii. 161 She was..thin as a bird, with fragile, brittle bones sticking out through the stretched, dry, parchment skin. < as lemmas |
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