parchmentyadj.
/ˈpɑːtʃm(ə)nti/, U.S. /ˈpɑrtʃmən(t)i/ Of the nature of parchment; resembling or suggestive of parchment.
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pergamenous1656
pergameneous1826
pergamentaceous1848
parchmenty1850
1850 W. S. R. Hodson Let. 4 Aug. in Twelve Years Soldier's Life in India (1864) 160 Contrast my white face and yellow hair with Sir Henry's nut-brown, the pale white parchmenty-color of the Kashmeree, the honest brunette tinge of the tall Sikh, [etc.].
1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope §396 The wings are usually of parchmenty consistence.
1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 105 As they eat with their fingers, dipping them into the palm oil, etc., for the first inch or two, the fingers get a sort of parchmenty look.
1972 J. Lees-Milne Let. 6 Apr. (1994) 219 She is thin as a wraith and her face is parchmenty and yellow.
1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest ii. 309 All rotten and parchmenty like a mummy in her casket, too hideous for the mind to grasp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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