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noun
Buckram  n.  
1.
A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. Note: Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc.
2.
(Bot.) A plant. See Ramson.


verb
Buckram  v. t.  To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.


adjective
Buckram  adj.  
1.
Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.
2.
Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames."





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... to get a chair, from which he had to move a mass of tissue-paper patterns and buckram linings. He brought ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions
... a Large Paper Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, printed on Imit. Hand-made Paper, illustrations mounted on vellum with decorative borders in gold. Bound in buckram, ...
— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies
... affectation. He pours his thoughts out upon paper as they arise in his mind; and they arise in his mind without pretence, or constraint, from the pure impulse of learned leisure and contemplative indolence. He is not here on stilts or in buckram; but smiles in his easy chair, as he moralises through the loopholes of retreat, on the bustle and raree-show of the world, or on "those reverend bedlams, colleges and schools!" He had nothing to do but to read and to think, and to tell his friends what he read and thought. His ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... more unpleasing than I will be, if God help me not. Lo, here be my spectacles. To see me afar off, you would readily say that it were Friar (John) Burgess. I believe certainly that in the next ensuing year I shall once more preach the Crusade. Bounce, buckram. Do you see this russet? Doubt not but there lurketh under it some hid property and occult virtue known to very few in the world. I did not take it on before this morning, and, nevertheless, am already in a rage of lust, mad after a wife, and vehemently hot upon ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... but a short distance beyond Don Diego's village, when he fell in with a couple of either priests or students, and a couple of peasants, mounted on four beasts of the ass kind. One of the students carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau, what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of-ribbed stockings; the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with buttons. The peasants carried divers articles that showed ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


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