Definition of "vellums" []

• Plural form of vellum. (noun)

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• "Adolphus were ravaging the cities of Germany; and Laud's agents were always at hand to rescue the fair books and vellums from the Swedish pikemen."
• "There are also handmade papers infused with botanicals or intertwined with fine gold threads, deckle-edged paper with hand-painted borders in rich metallic tones, an assortment of stunning vellums or “translucents,” and a dazzling array of thirty-two-pound “opalescent” metallics."
• "The details of Constantine's coins are found in the ivory dyptics and those splendidly illuminated Gospel vellums which art-despising monks kneeled upon from the seventh to the tenth century, and which art-loving monks, even in the middle of the nineteenth century, used in the decoration of their monastery halls at Mount Athos."