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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
See 1957 quote at parchment beaver.
See: parchment beaver
Quotations
1679
Resolved Upon Debate that all our Beavor both Coat and Parchment shall be exposed at the same time to Publique sale. . . .
1697
Received some goods into ye trading room &c told into the warehouse 38 coat beaver 26 half and 12 whole parchment.
1958
This was the castor sec, the dry beaver or "parchment" which normally came in great quantities from Canada. . . .
2n.
an animal hide that has been dehaired, stretched, and dried, used for making such things as babiche, window panes, packstraps, and pemmican bags.
Quotations
1749
One Parchment Mouse [moose], & two Beavers.
1819
The windows for want of parchment were covered by damaged bale cloths.
1872
During five days our course lay through vast expanses of stiff frozen reeds, whose corn-like stalks rattled harshly against the parchment sides of the cariole. . . .
1952
The sale of dressed moose and caribou hides, parchment, babiche, deer sinews and moccasins also helped. . . .