parchmentier
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of parchmenter.
Example Sentences
- "[William H.] Moore says the tax rolls of Philip the Fair in 1215 showed streets of Paris named for writers, illuminators and dealers in parchment. “The ‘parchmentiers’ all lived near the walls of the city, maybe to avoid the king’s taxes on sheepskins,” Moore quips."
- "|> Caledonia is what you might call the Northern region, centred on Perth I |> think. They have tried to make 4regions. East is Edinburgh, West is |> Glasgow, South is Borders and North... What a mess. They coulda taken a leaf out of the Irish book and made them Dalriada, Bernicia, Cumbria and ... Caledonia... ? Oh well. ---------------- Bill, (formerly parchmentier to the Lord Lyon of Scotland.)"
- "Some book history publications conventionally default to “he/him” pronouns for all medieval bookmakers, arguing that this is good practice because the majority of parchmentiers, scribes, and illuminators were probably men."
- "The brevigerulus should not have allowed representatives from the religious houses to write on the verso; instead, he should have stitched—or commissioned a parchmentier to stitch—a fourth membrane to the roll, but he failed to do this."