buckram (redirected from buckramed)

buck·ram  (bkrm)

n.

1. A coarse cotton fabric heavily sized with glue, used for stiffening garments and in bookbinding.

2. Archaic Rigid formality.

adj.

Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality: "a wondrous buckram style" (Thomas Carlyle).

tr.v. buck·ramed, buck·ram·ing, buck·rams

To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

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[Middle English bukeram, fine linen, from Old French boquerant and from Old Italian bucherame, both after Bukhara (Bukhoro), from which fine linen was once imported.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	buckram - a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
Verb	1.	buckram - stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt" stiffen - make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
Adj.	1.	buckram - rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" starchy, stiff formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"