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parchment window Hist.

• a window pane of parchment (def. 2), widely used in cabins in the Northwest (def. 1a).

  See also: Northwest  parchment  

  • 1775  (1934)  Mild dowdy weather; the Carpenter Employed nailing on a set of new Parchment windows. . . .
  • 1860  (1870)  The cottage, built of massive logs plastered with mud, and lighted by firmly fixed parchment windows, admitted no communication with the outer air. . . .
  • 1885  (1921)  We were at one time reduced to such dire straits that we were obliged to eat our parchment windows. . . .