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Meanings of buckram in English

Rigidly formal.

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Usage of buckram in English
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Yet beneath the buckram you always feel that there is a heart.
Lectures and Essays
2
It produces indigo in great abundance; and they also make much fine buckram.
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
3
The use of buckram has been mostly abandoned by the libraries.
A Book for All Readers / An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Pres...
4
Making frames for hats follows-theframes are of wire and buckram.
The Canadian Girl at Work: A Book of Vocational Guidance
5
What one saw was not buckram, whalebone, paint, and false hair.
The Eustace Diamonds
6
He stood a minute, looking indecisively at the buckram backs.
I Am Legend
7
There is also a summer buckram, lighter in weight and smooth on both sides.
Make Your Own Hats
8
Leather bindings stood beside dusty buckram and yellowed vellum were shelved side by side.
The Sorceress
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The fugitives are counting up like Falstaff's 'rogues in buckram.'
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
10
The same method is used in covering a neteen frame as with the buckram frame.
Make Your Own Hats
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They might have been weighted with buckram, although it was no longer in general use.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
12
Wire frame construction from dimensions and models; making frames of buckram, capenet, and stiff willow.
The Making of a Trade School
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I hate the musty, buckram ghosts of our fathers.
Girlhood and Womanhood / The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortu...
14
Chuck wigs from sconces, and off with your buckram.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1
15
The second shot hit Lucien's coat collar, but the buckram lining fortunately saved its wearer.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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They do not reason, but recollect how much themselves have overcharged some yards of buckram.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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