Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coarse cotton or linen fabric heavily sized with glue, used for stiffening garments and in bookbinding.
- noun Archaic Rigid formality.
- adjective Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality.
- transitive verb To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formerly, a fine and costly material used for church banners and vestments and for personal wear; also, a cheaper material used for linings.
- noun In recent times, coarse linen cloth stiffened with glue or gum, used as a stiffening for keeping garments in a required shape, and recently also in binding books.
- noun 3. A buckram bag used by lawyers' clerks.
- noun The ramson or bear's-garlic, Allium ursinum.
- noun In the old herbals, the cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum.
- Made of or resembling buckram of either kind; hence, stiff; precise; formal.
- To strengthen with buckram, or in the manner of buckram; make stiff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Bot.) A plant. See
Ramson . - adjective Made of buckram.
- adjective Stiff; precise.
- transitive verb To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A plant,
Allium ursinum , also calledramson ,wild garlic , or bear garlic. - noun A coarse cloth of
linen orhemp , stiffened withsize or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. - verb transitive To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rigidly formal
- noun a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
- verb stiffen with or as with buckram
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The structures it is true tend a little too much of what may be termed buckram and fustian styles; indeed there is scarcely a form or a detail which an architect would care to jot down in his note-book.
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The coarse, heavy, plain-woven linen or cotton material known as buckram today is used for stiffening, etc.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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Linen cloth observed through a microscope which magnifies the threads to a coarseness of about forty to the inch gives us the exact appearance of the buckram, which is a heavy, strong cloth well adapted to large books, and which furnishes the most durable binding of all the book cloths.
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The vessels of the Mangalore merchants came here to trade with the natives of this part of India for cargoes of spices, a fine kind of cloth called buckram and other valuable wares; but their vessels were frequently attacked, and too often pillaged by the pirates who infested these seas, and who were justly regarded as formidable enemies.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866
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The sequence's metaphors frequently round on poetry or writing generally like this: a poem is itself a scrynne for word-relics, one can "buckram" "stanzas with such long lines," and yes, "deception is part of the game" in the Aristotelian sense of metaphor as misnaming.
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The sequence's metaphors frequently round on poetry or writing generally like this: a poem is itself a scrynne for word-relics, one can "buckram" "stanzas with such long lines," and yes, "deception is part of the game" in the Aristotelian sense of metaphor as misnaming.
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_Foundation muslin_: A nice kind of buckram, stiff and white, used for the foundation or basis of bonnets, etc.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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_Foundation muslin_, a nice kind of buckram, stiff and white, used for the foundation or basis of bonnets, &c.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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_ The word "buckram" was anciently applied to the finest linen cloth, as is apparently the case here; see
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Covered in red buckram, with gilt lettering on the spine and front face.
chained_bear commented on the word buckram
men in buckram: sometimes proverbially for non-existent persons, in allusion to Falstaff's ‘four rogues in buckram’ (quot. 1596).
February 6, 2007
yarb commented on the word buckram
Citation (as adjective) on hodge-podge.
October 8, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word buckram
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011