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Buckram

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

n. Archaic Rigid formality.

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

v. To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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.

v. To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

n. A plant. See Ramson.

adj. Made of buckram.

adj. Stiff; precise.

v. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Formerly, a fine and costly material used for church banners and vestments and for personal wear; also, a cheaper material used for linings.

n. 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.

n. 3. A buckram bag used by lawyers' clerks.

n. The ramson or bear's-garlic, Allium ursinum.

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. rigidly formal

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

v. stiffen with or as with buckram

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

formal

Verb Form

buckramed buckraming buckrams

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cloth fabric material textile stiffen

Cross Reference

ramp

Variant

ramson

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stiff precise

Same Context

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