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Meanings of buckram in English

Rigidly formal.

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Examples for "stiff"
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May 20:-Requiresspoon-feeding; sleeps well; remains always in bed in stiff attitudes.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
2
But the process was marked by stiff political and trade union opposition.
The Guardian
3
My body is stiff after a long day working on the house.
God's gift
4
Extending that to banks, however, is likely to stir up stiff opposition.
Reuters
5
Despite the stiff penalties, illegal gambling has grown exponentially in recent years.
The South African
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Green vegetables, however, are not starchy enough to use on their own.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
2
The dumplings are also great alternatives to rice or other starchy choices.
The South African
3
From these experiments determine in which class-animalor vegetable-thestarchy foods belong.
School and Home Cooking
4
White flour contains little more than the starchy elements of the grain.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
5
Serve with your favourite starchy sides and add blackberry sauce as desired.
Jamaica Observer
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
9
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
11
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
13
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
16
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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