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Meanings of buckrams in English

Pungent, perennial weedy plant in Europa and north Asia which smells similar to garlic and is often used as cooking ingredient.

        Usage of buckrams in English
        1
        The people also manufacture very fine buckrams and other cloths of cotton.
        The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
        2
        Basket cloth is still another material which could properly be included with the buckrams.
        The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written ...
        3
        It begins at a city called ARZINGA, at which they weave the best buckrams in the world.
        The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
        4
        Crash is a special cloth which might properly be classed with the buckrams, and when suitably used is a very artistic material.
        The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written ...
        5
        The first of men naturally are the Buckrams, her own race: then follow in rank the Scrapers.
        The Book of Snobs
        6
        Buckrams are sometimes embossed to imitate in part the appearance of an irregularly woven fabric called "crash."
        The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written ...
        Frequent collocations
        Buckrams through the time