DCHP-1

parchment skin Hist.

an animal hide that has been dehaired, stretched, and dried, used for making such things as babiche, window panes, packstraps, and pemmican bags.
See also: parchment (def. 2)
- 1680 (1945) And as for the Parchmt. skinns it appearing that there are several sorts of those Skinns some whereof may be fitt for the Rushia Mkt.
- 1791 (1934) A Parchment skin is sometimes used for the purpose of Cooking in by them.
- 1862 They succeeded in getting just two parchment-skins and when the Indians had no more to barter, they took the whiskey from the men and made them run for their lives.
- 1957 Those who had come from the distant posts had carioles, sleds of birch boards twelve feet long, the sides covered with parchment skins painted with bright colors.