buckram
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
Definition of buckram
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)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.
“Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—”
“Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.”
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noun
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(uncountable, usually)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.
“Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—”
“Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.”
- (uncountable, usually)A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
verb
- (transitive)To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.
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