buckram en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈbʌkɹəm/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) 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.
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.
1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 557:
- (uncountable, usually) A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| buckrams | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (7)
fi kovikekangas (cloth) · sv klot (cloth) · fr bougran (cloth) · fi jäykistekangas (cloth) · fi klootti (cloth) · fi tukikangas (cloth) · ru коленко́р (cloth)