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parchmenty

parchmenty adjective: resembling or characteristic of parchment.

Adjective

parchmenty (comparative more parchmenty, superlative most parchmenty)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of parchment.
    • The bodies that were only salted and dried remain less perfect, the features being destroyed, the hair removed, while the skin is hard and parchmenty. The Egyptian modes of embalming were copied by the Jews, Greeks, and Romans.1887, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, volume 7, page 542

Synonyms of parchmenty

Forms of parchmenty

comparativemore parchmenty
superlativemost parchmenty

Origin of parchmenty

From parchment + -y.

Questions about parchmenty

What does parchmenty mean?
Parchmenty means resembling or characteristic of parchment.
What part of speech is parchmenty?
Parchmenty is an adjective.

Words near parchmenty in the dictionary

  1. parchmentizes
  2. parchmentizing
  3. parchmentless
  4. parchmentlike
  5. parchments
  6. parchmenty
  7. parchorin
  8. parchy
  9. parciante
  10. parciantes
  11. parcimony

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