buckram
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BUCKRAMCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BUCKRAM bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#BUCKRAM bokeram, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#BUCKRAM boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.
Noun
buckram (usually uncountable, plural buckrams)Category:English lemmas#BUCKRAMCategory:English nouns#BUCKRAMCategory:English uncountable nouns#BUCKRAMCategory:English countable nouns#BUCKRAMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with entries#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BUCKRAM
- 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.
- 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]:
- Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—Category:English terms with quotations#BUCKRAM
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 557:
- Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.Category:English terms with quotations#BUCKRAM
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
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Verb
buckram (third-person singular simple present buckrams, present participle buckraming, simple past and past participle buckramed or buckrammed)Category:English lemmas#BUCKRAMCategory:English verbs#BUCKRAMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with entries#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BUCKRAM
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BUCKRAM) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
Etymology 2
Perhaps a back-formationCategory:English back-formations#BUCKRAM from earlier buckrams, from buck + ramps, ramsh (“wild garlic, ramson”)Category:English compound terms#BUCKRAM. Compare Danish ramsløg (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“bear garlic, ramson”).
Alternative forms
Noun
buckram (plural buckrams)Category:English lemmas#BUCKRAMCategory:English nouns#BUCKRAMCategory:English countable nouns#BUCKRAMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with entries#BUCKRAMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BUCKRAM
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.