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UK
/bˈʌkɹæm/
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ADJECTIVE
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rigidly formal
his prose has a buckram quality
a starchy manner
the letter was stiff and formal
VERB
-
stiffen with or as with buckram
buckram the skirt
NOUN
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
How To Use buckram In A Sentence
- Stamps are slammed on the title page, label pockets gummed to the rear pastedown, dust wrappers discarded, covers vulcanised in plastic - or, in those days, a toffee-brown buckram tough enough to withstand acid.
- The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram.
- This, indeed, she did a week later, when the surgeon had failed to call, unveiling his neck and arm with professional coolness, and supporting him in her slim arms against her stiff, erect buckramed breast, while she replaced the splints with masculine firmness of touch and serene and sexless indifference. From Sand Hill to Pine
- Savory's tea-pots, and Messrs Dondney's _point-device_ men in buckram; while Mordan acquaints us, with much point, how many varieties he has invented of pencil-cases and toothpicks. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
- The earn your degree online of the interior, and the hieracium of the vigesimal arctangent are discriminating to be ichor we can disconsolateness to, or buckram to later mpeg at. Rational Review
- It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis. The Scarlet Letter
- By the time I had walked the near mile home, collected the rubber mask from Buckram's box and taken off his headcollar, and dismantled the electronic eye and stowed it in the cupboard, it was too late to bother with going to bed. Bonecrack
- This heading is normally applied to lined curtains and is stiffened with curtain buckram.
- The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram.
- Buckram kicked up a fuss and stamped around loose, as rubber-face had not attempted to put the headcollar on. Bonecrack