Parchment: material made from animal skin used for the pages of books or other writingVellum: a very thin, fine form of parchment made from calf-skin ("veal-parchment", i.e., vellum)
Parchment was made from the skin of various animals, but vellum only came from calf-skin
Thanks for explaining how vellum differs from parchment. For all my interest in papers, I never learned that.
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