buckram
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara.
Noun
buckram (usually uncountable, plural buckrams)
- 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.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 557
- Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
Translations
cloth
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Verb
buckram (third-person singular simple present buckrams, present participle buckraming, simple past and past participle buckramed or buckrammed)
- (transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
Etymology 2
Perhaps from earlier buckrams, from buck + ramps, ramsh (“wild garlic, ramson”). Compare Danish ramsløg (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“bear garlic, ramson”).
Alternative forms
Noun
buckram (plural buckrams)
- A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
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