buckram

(buk′rəm)

noun

a coarse cotton or linen cloth stiffened with glue or other size, for use in bookbinding, for lining or stiffening clothes, etc.
Archaic stiffness or formality

Origin: ME bokeram < OFr bouquerant; prob. after Bukhara, city in Uzbekistan

adjective

transitive verb

to stiffen with buckram

See buckram in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A coarse cotton fabric heavily sized with glue, used for stiffening garments and in bookbinding.
Archaic Rigid formality.

adjective

Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality: “a wondrous buckram style” (Thomas Carlyle).

transitive verb buck·ramed, buck·ram·ing, buck·rams

To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English bukeram, fine linen

Origin: , from Old French boquerant

Origin: and from Old Italian bucherame

Origin: , both after Bukhara (Bukhoro), from which fine linen was once imported

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