Buckram

Word BUCKRAM
Character 7
Hyphenation buck ram
Pronunciations /ˈbʌkɹəm/

Definitions and meanings of "Buckram"

What do we mean by buckram?

A coarse cotton or linen fabric heavily sized with glue, used for stiffening garments and in bookbinding. noun

Rigid formality. noun

Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality. adjective

To stiffen with or as if with buckram. transitive verb

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. noun

Made of or resembling buckram of either kind; hence, stiff; precise; formal.

To strengthen with buckram, or in the manner of buckram; make stiff.

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

A plant. See Ramson. noun

Made of buckram. adjective

Stiff; precise. adjective

To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. transitive verb

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

To stiffen with or as if with buckram. verb

A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. noun

Rigidly formal adjective

A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

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The word "buckram" in example sentences

The coarse, heavy, plain-woven linen or cotton material known as buckram today is used for stiffening, etc. ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_Foundation muslin_: A nice kind of buckram, stiff and white, used for the foundation or basis of bonnets, etc. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

_Foundation muslin_, a nice kind of buckram, stiff and white, used for the foundation or basis of bonnets, &c. ❋ Catharine Esther Beecher (1839)

_ The word "buckram" was anciently applied to the finest linen cloth, as is apparently the case here; see ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)

It is Near Fine+ in dark red polished buckram boards, gilt cockerel stamped at front cover, gilt lettering and small cockerel at spine, deckle edges all around, rag paper content with watermark of cockerel over letters "G" "C" and "P" (Golden Cockerel Press) on last (of 2) blank page. ❋ Unknown (2009)

BINDING Material used as a protective cover for a book (e.g.: leather, cloth, buckram, paper, etc.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most rely now on more recent books that used incomplete copies or fragments to build their own (sometime good, though oft woefully inadequate in comparison) histories for our continent and lands. “As I say, the Incandanti hold a complete (shocking, I know, boy) seven-volume set bound in blue buckram that once rested in the Royal Library of Tsarnus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Covered in red buckram, with gilt lettering on the spine and front face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, while the label is black in each instance, the buckram varies in colour throughout the set. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She was impressed by many of the costume's details—like the specific arrangement of the stays, the foam rubber half-falsies on which the breasts rest and the buckram cloth that stiffens the ears. ❋ Thomas Vinciguerra (2011)

I have a really [bad] [case] of buckram from [your dad] ❋ Annul (2021)

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