vellum

How To Use vellum In A Sentence

• One example - out of many - is his discussion of the mezuzah, a small capsule attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes containing a piece of vellum with verses from the Book of Deuteronomy.
• If whole generations -- whole cultures -- were enabled, by such artistry, to see their own illusions as artifacts in vellum (or celluloid, or CRT), much would have been accomplished. Life of Letitia Landon
• The new works may be her most reserved and elegant since the monochromes (such as charcoal on vellum) that she made in the late '80s.
• Nessler specializes in working on the old-fashioned medium of vellum, or calfskin, and sells her work for $1,000 to $7,000.
• The books and manuscripts were written on vellum, a preparation of calf, goat and sheep skins.
• There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. The Memory Palace
• Right: A handsome array in calf, morocco and vellum.
• I enquired the cause, when, with his natural candour, he informed me that he could not help being more impressed by what he termed the prating of the gossips who had just left us, than, perhaps, he ought to be; and then showed me a little vellum case which he found at the Lodge, and which, he was then assured, was dropped by the young lady of whom they had been talking. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
• Like bitter juice scratched in eldritch patience and dried on vellum skin. plethora convoluted diadem Rockin' babies and finally done with the class
• I've read Vellum in german first (and I agree that the translation is very good). Interview: Hannes Riffel