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Buckram Common

Buckram has 6 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing

2

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.

3

A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

Verb
1

stiffen with or as with buckram

"buckram the skirt"

2

To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

Adjective
1

rigidly formal

"a starchy manner"

"the letter was stiff and formal"

"his prose has a buckram quality"

Example Sentences
"buckram the skirt" verb
"a starchy manner" adjective
"the letter was stiff and formal" adjective
"his prose has a buckram quality" adjective
See Also
linen size wild garlic buckrams bookbinding bocasine ramson hemp
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
fabric stiffen
Rhyming Words
ram vram dram cram pram bram tram rram fram aram mram sram gram coram scram sdram rdram avram hiram shram
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