(n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
(n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(2) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(3) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(4) Fragments of Dead Sea Scroll Parchments were extracted for collagen and subjected to amino acid analysis.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) A 18-year-old female with unusual type of parchment-like right ventricle died of intractable congestive heart failure was reported.
(7) Leave them to rise on a piece of lightly greased baking parchment for 45-60 minutes – until the dough is 1½- 2 times as thick.
(8) In 48 specimen a combination of increased density of the condyle on the facial aspect with a thin bony lamella in the roof of the fossa, which either shows high density or very little material of low density, a so-called parchment fossa, was observed.
(9) 2 Once chilled, roll the pastry out on a piece of baking parchment so that it is large enough to line the base and sides of a 20cm-diameter cake or flan tin (I used a round loose-bottomed cake tin).
(10) Prepare the pudding basin and batter as below, and cover with baking parchment as instructed (even in the oven, this will help to keep some moisture in).
(11) Reflecting colours from the fatty layer of the precorneal film have been studied using mat filter (grease-proof paper, parchment paper, tracing paper) in front of the slit lamp mirror, maximally open light slit in a half-lit room, and magnification x 15.
(12) The microflora of an ancient Greek manuscript parchment was studied using different microscopic techniques.
(13) Among them, completely unremarked upon until Dr Schwartz happened upon it recently, was a parchment-bound album that a pencilled note identified as full of photos of Hitler's own paintings.
(14) For the meringue: egg whites 6 caster sugar 280g shelled hazelnuts 100g cornflour 1 tbsp For the filling: hazelnuts 150g vanilla pod 1 honey 4 tbsp double cream 400ml figs 9 Line a 33cm x 24cm Swiss roll tin with lightly oiled baking parchment.
(15) 6 Place the chicken breast down on to the baking parchment and put into the hot oven for 30 minutes.
(16) Unlike other artefacts which may be a bit more sexy, it’s a piece of parchment with some rather unintelligible words written on it in Latin,” acknowledged Sandra Matthews-Marsh, chief executive of Visit Kent, the body that promotes tourism in the county keen to put itself on the newly launched Magna Carta tourist map .
(17) Line the sides and base of a 33 x 23 x 5.5cm baking tin with baking parchment.
(18) The looming tussle to succeed the prime minister before the next general election also had a bearing on what made it on to the parchment in a thin Queen’s speech.
(19) Membrane potentials have been measured across parchment-supported cupric palmitate membrane separating various 1:1 electrolytes at concentrations C1 and C2 such that C2 = 10 C1.
(20) 6 Cut a small disc of parchment paper and place on top of the sauce, then cover with a lid.
Sheepskin
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
(n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) His dad runs a financial trading company and his mum has a business selling leather coats and sheepskin products.
(2) The high mean number in sheepskins is the result of massively high populations in seven of the eighteen skins sampled.
(3) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(4) The most popular aids used for the relief of pressure areas included synthetic sheepskin pads (supplied to 46.2% of the affected patients) and ripple mattresses (supplied to 28.8% of the affected patients).
(5) Three other infants had been placed on sheepskin rugs for the first time and were found dead shortly thereafter.
(6) Hospital sheepskins were almost almost uniformly mite free.
(7) Her house is cluttered with books, throws, sheepskin rugs and a black and white cat called Yum-Yum ("after the Mikado") whose smell is everywhere.
(8) Beds are inflatable mattresses with sheepskin rugs, and guests chop their own wood and pick their own blueberries.
(9) The dermal collagen fibre-mesh of sheepskin was purified by a proteolytic enzyme treatment after which the skins were split, providing a split-skin graft corresponding to the reticular layer of the dermis.
(10) The effect of protecting the breast with sheepskin was significant at the 95% level of confidence in reducing incidence of breast blisters.
(11) The "moods" for the season are in synergy with the catwalk, yet given deliberately non-fashionista names: so the 1960s retro trend, which includes a short, belted pale-blue coat (£99) very similar to a Gucci version and a cracked patent jacket with square sheepskin collar (£89) which nods deeply to the Louis Vuitton catwalk, is dubbed "Downtown."
(12) The space boot and foam heel protectors were far more successful than sheepskin rugs or polyester heel protectors, which provided little protection to the prominent heel.
(13) The mean number of mites recovered from nursery sheepskins (all woollen) was thirteen times as high as the mean number from other forms of adult or infant bedding sampled.
(14) The at-risk older patient must immediately be placed on a supersoft support, with heels protected with sheepskin boots.
(15) In search of a biological mesh-prosthesis, sheepskin was processed according to established methods in the manufacture of leather.
(16) It teems with locals buying blankets, headscarves and spices and tourists browsing the lutes, sheepskin hats and replica daggers.
(17) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
(18) Its brand-new sister chalet, Chamois Lodge, sleeping nine, is available for £9,335 for the week starting 7 April, and has "witty, mountain chic decor" with cowhide rugs, sheepskins, antiques and art, and a hot tub.
(19) However the protection afforded is no more than 90%, and even less if the condom is made of sheepskin.
(20) The too-clean models look straight out of central casting, with their scarves, sheepskins and surly, stoned expressions.