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parchmentiers

parchmentiers is the plural of parchmentier.

Meaning of parchmentier

Noun

parchmentier (plural parchmentiers)

  1. (rare) Synonym of parchmenter.
    • [William H.] Moore says the tax rolls of Philip the Fair in 1215 showed streets of Paris named for writers, illuminators and dealers in parchment. “The ‘parchmentiers’ all lived near the walls of the city, maybe to avoid the king’s taxes on sheepskins,” Moore quips.1976 July 28, Warren Hughes, “Conejo calligrapher pens a fine line”, in News Chronicle, volume XXII, number 49, Thousand Oaks, Calif., →OCLC, page 33, column 6
    Synonyms:
    parchmenter

Questions about parchmentiers

What is parchmentiers the plural of?
Parchmentiers is the plural of parchmentier.

Words near parchmentiers in the dictionary

  1. parchmental
  2. parchmented
  3. parchmenter
  4. parchmenters
  5. parchmentier
  6. parchmentiers
  7. parchmentise
  8. parchmentised
  9. parchmentises
  10. parchmentising
  11. parchmentization

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