buckram
IPA: bˈʌkræm
noun
- 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.
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
verb
- (transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
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Examples of "buckram" in Sentences
- Buckram can also be used to stiffen clothes.
- Buckram also rushed for 241 yards and one score.
- The photo depicts a variety of buckram color swatches.
- Millinery buckram is different from bookbinding buckram.
- The book is bound in blue buckram and costs but 75 cents.
- The photo depicts two sides of a sample strip of buckram.
- UTEP's Donald Buckram came up with a few ways to score too.
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