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What (who) is buckram - definition

COARSE PLAIN-WOVEN COTTON, JUTE, OR LINEN TEXTILE STIFFENED WITH GLUE, SIZE, OR STARCH

Buckram

·adj Stiff; precise.

II. Buckram ·adj Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.

III. Buckram ·noun A plant. ·see Ramson.

IV. Buckram ·vt To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

V. Buckram ·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.

buckram

['b?kr?m]

¦ noun coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with paste, used as interfacing and in bookbinding.

Phrases

men in buckram archaic non-existent people. [with allusion to Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV II. iv. 210-50.]

Origin

ME: from OFr. boquerant, perh. from Bukhoro, a city in Uzbekistan.

Buckram

Buckram is a stiff cotton (occasionally linen or horse hair) cloth with a loose weave, often muslin. The fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat starch paste, glue (such as PVA glue), or pyroxylin (gelatinized nitrocellulose, developed around 1910), then dried.

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Buckram

Buckram is a stiff cotton (occasionally linen or horse hair) cloth with a plain, usually loose, weave, produced in various weights similar to muslin and other plain weave fabrics. For buckram, the fabric is soaked in a sizing agent such as wheat-starch paste, glue (such as PVA glue), or pyroxylin (gelatinized nitrocellulose, developed around 1910), then dried. When rewetted or warmed, it can be shaped to create durable firm fabric for book covers, hats, and elements of clothing.

In the Middle Ages, "bokeram" (as the word was sometimes spelt in Middle English) designated a fine cotton cloth, not stiff. The etymology of the term remains uncertain; the Oxford English Dictionary considers the commonly-mentioned derivation from the name of the city of Bokhara unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckram