Dictionary:
buck·ram (bŭk'rəm)  |
- A coarse cotton fabric heavily sized with glue, used for stiffening garments and in bookbinding.
- Archaic. Rigid formality.
Resembling or suggesting buckram, as in stiffness or formality: “a wondrous buckram style” (Thomas Carlyle).
tr.v., -ramed, -ram·ing, -rams.To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
[Middle English bukeram, fine linen, from Old French boquerant and from Old Italian bucherame, both after Bukhara (Bukhoro), from which fine linen was once imported.]
