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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun buckram has 1 sense
- buckram(n = noun.artifact) Array - a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing; Array is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
Derived form verb buckram1
Verb buckram has 1 sense
- buckram(v = verb.change) Array - stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt" is one way to stiffen
Derived form noun buckram1
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Adjective buckram has 1 sense
- buckram(s = adj.all) starchy, stiff - rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
CIDE DICTIONARY
buckram, n. [OE. bokeram, bougeren, OF. boqueran, F. bougran, MHG. buckeram, LL. buchiranus, boquerannus, fr. MHG. boc, G. bock, goat (as being made of goat's hair), or fr. F. bouracan, by transposing the letter r . See Buck, Barracan.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]" Buckram was formerly a very different material from that now known by the name. It was used for wearing apparel, etc." Beck (Draper's Dict. ). [1913 Webster]
- A plant. See Ramson. Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster]
buckram, a.
- Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit. [1913 Webster]
- Stiff; precise. Brooke. [1913 Webster]
buckram, v. t.
To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
buckram, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with gum or paste, and used as interfacing or in bookbinding.
2 archaic stiffness in manner.
--adj. archaic starchy; formal.
--n.
1 a coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with gum or paste, and used as interfacing or in bookbinding.
2 archaic stiffness in manner.
--adj. archaic starchy; formal.
Idiom
men in buckram a figment (Shakesp.
1 Henry IV II. iv. 210-50).
1 Henry IV II. iv. 210-50).
Etymology
ME f. AF bukeram, OF boquerant, perh. f. Bokhara in central Asia
ROGET THESAURUS
buckram
Affectation
N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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