Buckram
WordNet
adjective
(1) Rigidly formal
"A starchy manner"
"The letter was stiff and formal"
"His prose has a buckram quality"
noun
(2) A coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
verb
(3) Stiffen with or as with buckram
"Buckram the skirt"
WiktionaryText
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.
- Quotations
- 1882: Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557.
- Quotations
- A plant, also called ramson or wild garlic.