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So called from Perʹgamon in Lesser Asia, where it was used for purposes of writing when Ptolʹemy prohibited the exportation of paper from Egypt.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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