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UK
/vˈɛləm/
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NOUN
- fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb
- a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment
How To Use vellum In A Sentence
- Handsome his library will never be, for here there will be a whole set of paper-bound volumes lacking backs, here a folio strangely patched and mended, there a book in rather dirty vellum somewhat cockled by damp, and so on. The Book-Hunter at Home
- The four corners of every book, however, should always be protected by leather or, better still, by vellum, which is a firmer material -- otherwise they will rapidly wear off, and the boards will break easily at their corners. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
- Vellum, traditionally made from calf skin as opposed to parchment which is made from goat or sheep skin, is very expensive.
- Often referred to as vellum, which etymologically means calfskin, parchment results from soaking the skins in lime and water, scraping, and drying them while stretched.
- Chaldaicus, printed on vellum, a beautiful copy, Sabionnettæ, 1557; many beautiful Horae, printed on vellum; Enchiridion Ecclesiæ Sarum, printed on vellum, extremely rare and interesting, Paris. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
- Other maps have been revised so many times that the vellum has holes in it, and parts of them are so old that we cannot unfold them without destroying them.
- The edition size is 125 and comes packaged in a custom linen portfolio box interleaved with vellum sheets.
- The parchment on which they wrote was vellum, calfskin, prepared by well established methods.
- To clean an unidentified spot of dirt from a page of a Samaritan Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), Ms. de Arteni used a very soft vinyl eraser, a medium that won't abrade the vellum (animal skin) of the rare 13th-century volume. The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures
- The lithographed posters are entirely hand printed, one color and one sheet at a time, on an old German litho press using 320 grain Coventry Rag Vellum paper.