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What does vellum mean?

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Noun
  1. A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.
  2. A writing paper of very high quality.
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The edition size is 125 and comes packaged in a custom linen portfolio box interleaved with vellum sheets.
Before the advent of the printing press, books were made of vellum because it was durable.
The books and manuscripts were written on vellum, a preparation of calf, goat and sheep skins.
In my day, we drew filthy pictures of ourselves on rosewater-soaked vellum and taped them to a carrier pigeon.
Early codices were made of papyrus but later developments replaced this by vellum.
Concorde Rag delivers photographic printability on soft white vellum paper.

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