(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".