buck|ram

buck|ram
buck|ram «BUHK ruhm», noun, adjective, verb, -ramed, -ram|ing.
–n.
1. a coarse cloth made stiff with glue or something like glue, used especially for stiffening garments and binding books: »

Four rogues in buckram let drive at me (Shakespeare).

2. Figurative. stiffness of manner: »

A fine, good-humoured, unaffected lad, no pride or buckram (Charles Cornwallis).

3. Obsolete. a fine linen or cotton fabric.
–adj.
1. made of buckram: »

... his buckram shirt collar (Byron).

2. a) like buckram. b) Figurative. stiff; formal; haughty: »

A wondrous buckram style, —the best he [Samuel Johnson] could get (Thomas Carlyle).

–v.t.
1. to pad or stiffen with buckram: »

... the starched, buckramed skirts of my female relatives (George A. Sala).

2. Figurative. to make stiff: »

His buckramed habit of clerical decorum (Hawthorne).

[< Old French bouquerant; origin uncertain]

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