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

noun. Rigid formality.

adjective. Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality.

transitive verb. To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

noun. Formerly, a fine and costly material used for church banners and vestments and for personal wear; also, a cheaper material used for linings.

noun. In recent times, coarse linen cloth stiffened with glue or gum, used as a stiffening for keeping garments in a required shape, and recently also in binding books.

noun. 3. A buckram bag used by lawyers' clerks.

noun. The ramson or bear's-garlic, Allium ursinum.

noun. In the old herbals, the cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum.

Made of or resembling buckram of either kind; hence, stiff; precise; formal.

To strengthen with buckram, or in the manner of buckram; make stiff.

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.

noun. A plant. See Ramson.

adjective. Made of buckram.

adjective. Stiff; precise.

transitive verb. To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

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

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.

verb. To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

adjective. rigidly formal

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

verb. stiffen with or as with buckram

"Linen cloth observed through a microscope which magnifies the threads to a coarseness of about forty to the inch gives us the exact appearance of the buckram, which is a heavy, strong cloth well adapted to large books, and which furnishes the most durable binding of all the book cloths."

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