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Definitions for Buckram

[1] a stiff cotton fabric for interlinings, book bindings, etc.
[2] stiffness of manner; extreme preciseness or formality.
[3] to strengthen with buckram.
[4] Archaic . to give a false appearance of importance, value, or strength to.
[5] cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc (as modifier ) a buckram cover
[6] archaic stiffness of manner
[7] (tr) to stiffen with buckram

Words related to Buckram

solid, stark, tight, tense, rigid, thick, wooden, creaky, arthritic, firm, refractory, set, brittle, rheumatic, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, inelastic, mechanical

Words nearby Buckram

buckminsterfullerene, buckner, bucko, buckra, buckraking, buckram, bucks, bucksaw, buckshee, buckshot, buckskin

Origin of Buckram

1175–1225; Middle English bukeram < Middle High German buckeram or Old Italian bucherame, said to be named after Bukhara, once noted for textiles

Word origin for Buckram

C14: from Old French boquerant , from Old Provençal bocaran , ultimately from Bukhara , once an important source of textiles

Synonyms for Buckram

arthritic, creaky, rigid, solid, stark, tense, thick, tight, wooden, brittle, firm, refractory, rheumatic, set, annealed, benumbed, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, resistant, solidified, starched, starchy, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, thickened, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding