Definition of "parchments" [parchments]

• Plural form of parchment. (noun)

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• "Paris, from Languedoc, Provence, or le Comtat, by my father, who dreaded, and not without reason, the inquisition which family title-deeds, and what was then styled the 'parchments' of the privileged class, brought down on the owners."
• "Umber put the notebook on his lap and scooped a pile of old parchments out of the chest."
• "The Molton wriggled out from a pile of rocks, limping on his iron peg, with an armful of tattered and half-burnt parchments in his stony arms."