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English
Etymology
From Middle English bocfel (“parchment”), from Old English bōcfell (“parchment, vellum”), equivalent to book + fell. Cognate with Old High German buohfel, puohfell (“parchment”), Middle High German buohvël (“parchment”), Old Norse bókfell (“parchment”).
Noun
bookfell (plural bookfells)
- A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
- A vellum or parchment manuscript.
- 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England:
- Write this on a bookfell or parchment so long that it may embrace the head on the outside, and hang it on the neck of the man who needs it; it will soon be well with him.
1878, George Stephens, Thunor the Thunderer:I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell.