Usually means: Animal skin used for writing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vellum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vellum: Merriam-Webster
  3. vellum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vellum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vellum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vellum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vellum, vellum: Wordnik
  8. vellum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vellum: Wiktionary
  10. vellum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vellum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vellum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vellum: Dictionary.com
  14. vellum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Vellum (disambiguation), Vellum (novel), Vellum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vellum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vellum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vellum: Rhymezone
  19. Vellum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vellum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Vellum: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. vellum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vellum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. vellum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vellum: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vellum: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VELLUM: Acronym Finder
  2. vellum: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vellums as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.
noun:  A writing paper of very high quality.

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