buckram
Plural: buckrams
Noun
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
- 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
Verb Forms: buckramed, buckraming, buckrams
- To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
- stiffen with or as with buckram
- "buckram the skirt"
- To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
Adjective Satellite
- rigidly formal
- "his prose has a buckram quality"
Examples
- He tried to buckram his resolve after realizing his Scrabble tiles were terrible.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.
Scrabble Score: 17
buckram: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbuckram: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
buckram: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 21
buckram: valid Words With Friends Word