What's the difference between vellum and vellumy?

Vellum


Definition:

  • (n.) A fine kind of parchment, usually made from calfskin, and rendered clear and white, -- used as for writing upon, and for binding books.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course it doesn't "die" with one Elizabeth R on the bottom of some vellum.
  • (2) The difficult question now is how to sort out these remaining issues without the crushing time pressure that leads to botched drafting which, in a royal charter world, become inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify.
  • (3) The portrait drawing, in graphite on vellum, had been in a private collection for years, and was being auctioned as an "imaginary portrait" of Austen, with "Miss Jane Austin" written on the back.
  • (4) These are tough times requiring cuts all round, including economies in new ideas: new ideas tend to cost new money, or they are rarely worth the vellum they are written on.
  • (5) They included Sir Peter Tapsell, now father of the Commons, whose grandiloquent style of speech prompted Hoggart to suggest that monks must be writing down his every word on vellum.
  • (6) However, when her body is found, she is holding a piece of crumpled vellum on which are written the words: 'I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that Mohammed is His messenger.'
  • (7) Nor should the “in” lobby pretend this insignificant little list changes anything worth the vellum it’s written on .
  • (8) But he added that the pressure to get legislation to underpin a new regulatory regime through before the parliamentary session ends in May could lead to a "botched drafting" with a royal charter "inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify".

Vellumy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling vellum.

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