vellumn.

Brit.

/ˈvɛləm/, U.S.

/ˈvɛləm/

Forms: α. Middle English velym, Middle English–1500s velyme, Middle English, 1600s velim, 1500s velime, velem, 1600s vellem. β. Middle English, 1600s velum, Middle English–1600s velume (1600s velumne), 1600s– vellum. γ. 1600s velom, 1600s–1700s vellom. δ. 1600s velame, 1600s–1700s velam, vellam.

Etymology: < Old French velin (vellin , veelin , etc.; modern French vélin ), < vel (veal n.¹), with change of n to m as in pilgrim, venom.

1. A fine kind of parchment prepared from the skins of calves (lambs or kids) and used especially for writing, painting, or binding; also, any superior quality of parchment or an imitation of this.See also vegetable vellum n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum > vellum or imitation of

vellumc1440

α.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 508/2 Velyme, membrana.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 81 That Holi Writt mai be take for the outward lettris writun and schapun vnder dyuerse figuris in parchemyn or in velim.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 80^v That stouffe that we wrytte vpon: and is made of beestis skynnes: is somtyme called parchement, somtyme velem.

1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 127 The Painters vse general groundes..; saue vpon paper, parchment or velime.

1645 Directory Publique Worship Ordinance A fair Register Book of Uelim.

figurative.1611 J. Davies To Worthy Persons in Wks. (Grosart) II. 62/1 Vpon th' unspotted vellem of thy face Nature hath printed characters of grace.β. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 The Notayres, skynners, coryours, and cardewaners werke by skynnes and hydes, As parchemyn, velume, peltrye and cordewan.1499 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 24 A mass boke of velum lymmyde.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Sonn. xi A childe..With gilded leaues or colourd velume playes.1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 4 But sillie wee like foolish Children rest, Well pleas'd with colour'd Velumne.1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 506 And without doubt it was immortal Vellum, and stoln from the Parchments of Jove.1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 83 I have an old Fox by my Thigh shall hack your Instrument of Ram Vellum to shreds, Sir.1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxxi. 243 The Retina [of an artificial eye] was made of a very white thin Piece of Vellum.a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iii. 205 The deed..was written on paper, and not on vellum, as was usual in all transactions of importance.a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 5 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III Pity these have not Traced upon vellum or wild Indian leaf The shadows of melodious utterance.1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. iii. 31 The Paradise of Dante in the proper old Italian binding of white vellum and gold.1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 16 The durable fine vellum of our oldest extant codices.figurative.1785 W. Cowper Task i. 569 The sportive wind blows wide Their flutt'ring rags, and shows a tawny skin, The vellum of the pedigree they claim.γ. 1601 G. Hakewill Vanitie of Eie (1615) xxii. 110 [To] beholde the heavens, and in them (as in large characters drawn in faire velom) the glory of their maker.1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Pref. 5 One of the first Books Printed on Paper, (that of Tully being on Vellom).1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Parchment What we call Vellom is only Parchment made of the Skins of abortive Calves, or at least of sucking Calves.δ. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiv. lxxvi. 266 The house is builded like a maze within,..The shape whereof plotted in velam thin I will you giue.1615 W. Welde tr. Janua Linguarum 59 He cancelled a line in the margent of the velame.1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies ii. xiii Hee..Whose milk-white Vellam did incurre No least suspition of a Blurre.1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 258 A MS. in velam.1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 130 King Henry the VIII^th's Primer upon Vellam.figurative.1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. iv. sig. K^v Can you think This master peece of heauen, this pretious vellam, Of such a puritie, and virgin whitenesse, Could be design'd to haue periurie, and whoredome..writ vpon 't?

2. A piece or sheet of this material; a manuscript or testimonial written on vellum.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on vellum

vellumc1430

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum > piece of

vellumc1430

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 204 A froward velym upon to wryt.

1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision iii. Notes 2 Like a Velum upon the Head of a Drum.

1878 G. Vigfusson Sturlunga Saga I. p. clx A quarto of 200 leaves when entire (about the largest size ever reached by an Icelandic vellum).

1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 6/3 He and his brother..received the vellum of the Royal Humane Society for their plucky conduct.

Compounds

C1. Attributive in the senses ‘made of, resembling, of the nature of, bound in, vellum’.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [adjective] > vellum

vellum1565

vellumy1846

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 7 With sheere and velume wynges.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aj All these, liuely designementes..be in velame parchement described.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 96/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He ought rather to make sute for some good vellam parchmente for the ingrossing thereof.

1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers iv. i, sig.G2 Not all thy Leatherne, nor Thy Vellum friends, those dead companions on Thy Shelves, shall be more faithful [etc.].

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 44 Who place Religion in their Velam ears; As in their Phylacters the Jewes did theirs.

1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 330 A very Ancient Vellam MS^t.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 353 Mr. Longman has already furnish'd me with a Vellum-book of all white Paper.

1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/1 The costly vellum covers of some of them [sc. books].

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. v. 88 A large vellum envelope.

C2. With past participles, as vellum-bound, vellum-covered.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective]

full-bound1705

super-extra1774

half-bound1775

Etruscan1792

antique1794

Russia-bound1808

vellum-bound1836

vellum-covered1836

quarter-bound1842

cloth-bound1860

limp1863

cottage1874

monastic1880

parchment-bound1881

yapped1882

all along1888

Grolieresque1889

Maioli1890

perfect1890

treed calf1892

Lyonnais1893

hardback1894

dos-à-dos1952

perfect bound1960

spiral-bound1961

spiral1977

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 35 With vellum covered books under their arms.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 605 A square vellum-bound book, with massive silver clasps.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 21 Her writing-table, with vellum-covered account-books on it.

C3. Special combinations.

vellum-binder n. (see quot. 1858).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > binder of specific type of book

vellum-binder1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Vellum-binder, a book~binder who covers books with vellum, and makes account~books.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Nov. 3/1 Three of them are concerned with the bookbinders—that is, the binders of printed books—and the fourth with the vellum-binders, the technical name for account-book binders.

vellum-binding n. the process or trade of binding account-books; also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > binding specific type of book

vellum-binding1835

1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia iii. (heading) 139 Of Stationery, or Vellum Binding.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Nov. 3/1 As soon as it was known that the bookbinders were going to concede the eight hours, several of the best vellum-binding firms conceded it also.

vellum cloth n. tracing-cloth.

Thesaurus »

Categories »

† vellum mode n. Obsolete (see mode n. 10).

vellum paper n. a paper made to imitate vellum.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper imitating vellum

vegetable vellum1881

vellum paper1888

Normandy vellum1935

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 151 Vellum laid paper, a laid writing paper with a vellum surface.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 151 Vellum wove paper, a wove writing paper with a vellum surface.

vellum-papered adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [adjective] > written on imitation vellum

vellum-papered1858

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 464/2 Look at the..vellum-papered 32 mo.

vellum post n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper for correspondence > types of

mourning paper1635

bank paper1696

bank post1801

foreign1825

Bath-post1837

bill-head1845

mourning notepaper1846

vellum post1847

bond papera1877

correspondence card1892

notehead1892

airmail paper1933

letterhead1939

notelet1955

bluey1989

1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Vellum~post, a peculiar sort of superior writing-paper.

vellum thunder n. poetic the noise made by the parchment of a drum.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums

tuck of druma1500

dubc1572

dub-a-dub1582

tucking1632

drumming1663

beat1672

vellum thunder1716

rattan1764

hub a dub1777

drum1810

drum beat1817

tom-tomming1833

bum-bum1844

rataplan1846

tom-tom1863

tattooing1871

tumming1882

tan-tan1893

1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 22 Here Rows of Drummers stand in martial File, And with their Vellom-Thunder shake the Pile.

Derivatives

ˈvellumy adj. relating to or resembling vellum.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [adjective] > vellum

vellum1565

vellumy1846

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Eclectic Rev.).

1925 H. A. Maddox What Stationer & Printer ought to know about Paper (ed. 3) i. 14 There are smooth vellums which derive their title from..a vellumy thickness and clarity of appearance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	vellum
释义	vellumn. Brit. /ˈvɛləm/, U.S. /ˈvɛləm/ Forms: α. Middle English velym, Middle English–1500s velyme, Middle English, 1600s velim, 1500s velime, velem, 1600s vellem. β. Middle English, 1600s velum, Middle English–1600s velume (1600s velumne), 1600s– vellum. γ. 1600s velom, 1600s–1700s vellom. δ. 1600s velame, 1600s–1700s velam, vellam. Etymology: < Old French velin (vellin , veelin , etc.; modern French vélin ), < vel (veal n.¹), with change of n to m as in pilgrim, venom. 1. A fine kind of parchment prepared from the skins of calves (lambs or kids) and used especially for writing, painting, or binding; also, any superior quality of parchment or an imitation of this.See also vegetable vellum n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum > vellum or imitation of vellumc1440 α. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 508/2 Velyme, membrana. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 81 That Holi Writt mai be take for the outward lettris writun and schapun vnder dyuerse figuris in parchemyn or in velim. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 80^v That stouffe that we wrytte vpon: and is made of beestis skynnes: is somtyme called parchement, somtyme velem. 1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge ii. 127 The Painters vse general groundes..; saue vpon paper, parchment or velime. 1645 Directory Publique Worship Ordinance A fair Register Book of Uelim. figurative.1611 J. Davies To Worthy Persons in Wks. (Grosart) II. 62/1 Vpon th' unspotted vellem of thy face Nature hath printed characters of grace.β. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 The Notayres, skynners, coryours, and cardewaners werke by skynnes and hydes, As parchemyn, velume, peltrye and cordewan.1499 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 24 A mass boke of velum lymmyde.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Sonn. xi A childe..With gilded leaues or colourd velume playes.1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 4 But sillie wee like foolish Children rest, Well pleas'd with colour'd Velumne.1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 506 And without doubt it was immortal Vellum, and stoln from the Parchments of Jove.1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 83 I have an old Fox by my Thigh shall hack your Instrument of Ram Vellum to shreds, Sir.1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxxi. 243 The Retina [of an artificial eye] was made of a very white thin Piece of Vellum.a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iii. 205 The deed..was written on paper, and not on vellum, as was usual in all transactions of importance.a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 5 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III Pity these have not Traced upon vellum or wild Indian leaf The shadows of melodious utterance.1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. iii. 31 The Paradise of Dante in the proper old Italian binding of white vellum and gold.1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 16 The durable fine vellum of our oldest extant codices.figurative.1785 W. Cowper Task i. 569 The sportive wind blows wide Their flutt'ring rags, and shows a tawny skin, The vellum of the pedigree they claim.γ. 1601 G. Hakewill Vanitie of Eie (1615) xxii. 110 [To] beholde the heavens, and in them (as in large characters drawn in faire velom) the glory of their maker.1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Pref. 5 One of the first Books Printed on Paper, (that of Tully being on Vellom).1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Parchment What we call Vellom is only Parchment made of the Skins of abortive Calves, or at least of sucking Calves.δ. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiv. lxxvi. 266 The house is builded like a maze within,..The shape whereof plotted in velam thin I will you giue.1615 W. Welde tr. Janua Linguarum 59 He cancelled a line in the margent of the velame.1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies ii. xiii Hee..Whose milk-white Vellam did incurre No least suspition of a Blurre.1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 258 A MS. in velam.1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 130 King Henry the VIII^th's Primer upon Vellam.figurative.1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iv. iv. sig. K^v Can you think This master peece of heauen, this pretious vellam, Of such a puritie, and virgin whitenesse, Could be design'd to haue periurie, and whoredome..writ vpon 't? 2. A piece or sheet of this material; a manuscript or testimonial written on vellum. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on vellum vellumc1430 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [noun] > vellum > piece of vellumc1430 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 204 A froward velym upon to wryt. 1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision iii. Notes 2 Like a Velum upon the Head of a Drum. 1878 G. Vigfusson Sturlunga Saga I. p. clx A quarto of 200 leaves when entire (about the largest size ever reached by an Icelandic vellum). 1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 6/3 He and his brother..received the vellum of the Royal Humane Society for their plucky conduct. Compounds C1. Attributive in the senses ‘made of, resembling, of the nature of, bound in, vellum’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [adjective] > vellum vellum1565 vellumy1846 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 7 With sheere and velume wynges. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aj All these, liuely designementes..be in velame parchement described. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 96/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He ought rather to make sute for some good vellam parchmente for the ingrossing thereof. 1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers iv. i, sig.G2 Not all thy Leatherne, nor Thy Vellum friends, those dead companions on Thy Shelves, shall be more faithful [etc.]. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 44 Who place Religion in their Velam ears; As in their Phylacters the Jewes did theirs. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 330 A very Ancient Vellam MS^t. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 353 Mr. Longman has already furnish'd me with a Vellum-book of all white Paper. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/1 The costly vellum covers of some of them [sc. books]. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. v. 88 A large vellum envelope. C2. With past participles, as vellum-bound, vellum-covered. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 35 With vellum covered books under their arms. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 605 A square vellum-bound book, with massive silver clasps. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 21 Her writing-table, with vellum-covered account-books on it. C3. Special combinations. vellum-binder n. (see quot. 1858). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > binder of specific type of book vellum-binder1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Vellum-binder, a book~binder who covers books with vellum, and makes account~books. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Nov. 3/1 Three of them are concerned with the bookbinders—that is, the binders of printed books—and the fourth with the vellum-binders, the technical name for account-book binders. vellum-binding n. the process or trade of binding account-books; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [noun] > binding specific type of book vellum-binding1835 1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia iii. (heading) 139 Of Stationery, or Vellum Binding. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Nov. 3/1 As soon as it was known that the bookbinders were going to concede the eight hours, several of the best vellum-binding firms conceded it also. vellum cloth n. tracing-cloth. Thesaurus » Categories » † vellum mode n. Obsolete (see mode n. 10). vellum paper n. a paper made to imitate vellum. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper imitating vellum vegetable vellum1881 vellum paper1888 Normandy vellum1935 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 151 Vellum laid paper, a laid writing paper with a vellum surface. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 151 Vellum wove paper, a wove writing paper with a vellum surface. vellum-papered adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [adjective] > written on imitation vellum vellum-papered1858 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 464/2 Look at the..vellum-papered 32 mo. vellum post n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper for correspondence > types of mourning paper1635 bank paper1696 bank post1801 foreign1825 Bath-post1837 bill-head1845 mourning notepaper1846 vellum post1847 bond papera1877 correspondence card1892 notehead1892 airmail paper1933 letterhead1939 notelet1955 bluey1989 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Vellum~post, a peculiar sort of superior writing-paper. vellum thunder n. poetic the noise made by the parchment of a drum. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums tuck of druma1500 dubc1572 dub-a-dub1582 tucking1632 drumming1663 beat1672 vellum thunder1716 rattan1764 hub a dub1777 drum1810 drum beat1817 tom-tomming1833 bum-bum1844 rataplan1846 tom-tom1863 tattooing1871 tumming1882 tan-tan1893 1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 22 Here Rows of Drummers stand in martial File, And with their Vellom-Thunder shake the Pile. Derivatives ˈvellumy adj. relating to or resembling vellum. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [adjective] > vellum vellum1565 vellumy1846 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Eclectic Rev.). 1925 H. A. Maddox What Stationer & Printer ought to know about Paper (ed. 3) i. 14 There are smooth vellums which derive their title from..a vellumy thickness and clarity of appearance. 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