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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
buckram
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cut out the bump to the exact size of buckram.
▪ Iron pattern to the buckram for ease, and cut with sharp scissors.
▪ Lay bump on one side of the dampened buckram and press to bond the layers together.
▪ Lay out the outer fabric flat with the wrong side up and lay buckram on top with the bump sandwiched in between.
▪ Tack each pleat in place on the right side, from top to bottom of buckram.
▪ The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram.
▪ This heading is normally applied to lined curtains and is stiffened with curtain buckram.
▪ You will need pelmet buckram and bump to equal the exact size of your pattern.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
buckram

Ramson \Ram"son\ (r[a^]m"z'n), n. [AS. hramsan, pl., akin to G. rams, Sw. rams, ramsl["o]k; cf. Gr. kro`myon onion.] (Bot.) A broad-leaved species of garlic ( Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
buckram

early 13c., from Old French boquerant "fine oriental cloth" (12c., Modern French bougran), probably (along with Spanish bucarán, Italian bucherame) from Bukhara, city in central Asia from which it was imported to Europe. Originally a name of a delicate, costly fabric, it later came to mean coarse linen used for lining. The -m in the English word may indicate Italian origin (compare Italian bucherame, 14c.).

Wiktionary
buckram

Etymology 1 n. 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. vb. (context transitive English) To stiffen with or as if with buckram. Etymology 2

alt. A plant, ''Allium ursinum'', also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. n. A plant, ''Allium ursinum'', also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

WordNet
buckram
  1. adj. rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" [syn: starchy, stiff]

  2. n. a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing

  3. v. stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt"

Wikipedia
Buckram

Buckram is a stiff cloth, made of cotton, and still occasionally linen, which is used to cover and protect books. Buckram can also be used to stiffen clothes. Modern buckrams have been stiffened by soaking in a substance, usually now pyroxylin, to fill the gaps between the fibres.

In the Middle Ages, "bokeram" was fine cotton cloth, not stiff. The etymology of the term is uncertain; the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain.

Millinery buckram is different from bookbinding buckram. It is impregnated with a starch, which allows it to be softened in water, pulled over a hat block, and left to dry into a hard shape. White buckram is most commonly used in hatmaking, though black is available as well. Millinery buckram comes in three weights: baby buckram (often used for children's and dolls' hats), single-ply buckram, and double buckram (also known as "theatrical crown").

American-made Buckram book cloth is a poly-cotton base cloth coated in aqueous acrylic. It was designed to withstand heavy use in libraries and offers strength, moisture resistance and mildew resistance. Buckram is available in different grades. It also can be used in electric boards for binding and is very stretchable. In the US, F grade buckram is offered in 15 glossy colors. It meets specifications for use in textbooks and exceeds performance specifications for library binding.

Both grades are suitable for reference books, hymnals, textbooks, albums, looseleaf binders, menus and other editions that require an extra level of protection.

Usage examples of "buckram".

Her expression was grim, but she showed no surprise when he shrugged out of his tunic, squirmed into a padded buckram aketon, and lifted his scale shirt from its rack.

Charles Cameron had provided himself with a magnificent library, of which at least a third was devoted to works of erotology in several languages, handsomely bound in buckram, tooled leather and hand-canvas, for his leisurely perusal.

Lay pattern flat on smooth side of buckram, lengthwise of the material to take advantage of the natural roll.

A round crown of buckram makes a good turban frame if a bias strip of crinoline an inch wide is sewed to the lower edge to give a little flare.

The first row would be placed near the outside edge of the buckram and each pleat sewed as it is laid.

Then he examined the rest of his travelling wardrobe, the breeches and buckled shoes to be worn on an occasion of ceremony, the six fine cravats Mrs McKelvie had hemmed for him, the six cambric shirts which were the work of the same needlewoman, the double-breasted waistcoat of wool and buckram to be worn if the weather grew chilly.

Woeful Knight in his tattered green buckram coat down on the bedside table, next to the vacuum water jug.

And as when in working at her embroidery the point of her needle would often come to a stop against stiff buckram, so now was the point of her soul brought to a stop against the soul of her husband.

Its chivalry was an imitation of the antiquated age of lords and ladies, and tournaments, and buckram courtesies, when men were as touchy to fight, at the lift of an eyelid or the drop of the glove, as Brian de Bois-Guilbert, and as ready for a drinking-bout as Christopher North.

They tended their flocks severely in buckram and powder and put their sticking-plaster patches on to terrify commoners as the chiefs of some other tribes put on their war-paint.

It was not so much a better principle as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.

It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.

It stands in Instopressible how Meynhir Mayour, our boorgomaister, thon staunch Thorsman, (our Nancy's fancy, our own Nanny's Big Billy), his hod hoisted, in best bib and tucker, with Woolington bottes over buckram babbishkis and his clouded cane and necknoose aureal, surrounded of his full cooperation with fixed baronets and meng our pueblos, restrained by chain of hands from pinchgut, hoghill, darklane, gibbetmeade and beaux and laddes and bumbellye, shall receive Dom King at broadstone barrow meet a keys of goodmorrow on to his pompey cushion.

The still air smelled of wood polish and buckram, and on all sides the bookshelves climbed, row after row, toward the high ceiling, the old leather-bound books that lined them gleaming with gold stamping in the firelight.

Just a small beat-up book in a buckram library binding, with the apparent title, so YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD?