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单词 buckram
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Definition of buckram in English:

buckram

noun ˈbʌkrəmˈbəkrəm
mass noun
  • Coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with gum or paste, and used as interfacing and in bookbinding.

    our sewn bindings incorporate buckram and leather
    as modifier a curtain with buckram headings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The device itself was simple enough, consisting of a buckram rim about eighteen inches in diameter, wrapped with 3,411 feet of cotton-covered copper wire, all in turn covered with tape, felt, and an imitation leather sleeve.
    • The Moroccan-leather-bound edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, is encased in a silver buckram drop-back solander box (£750 inclusive of delivery).
    • They just don't make buckram like they used to.
    • New for 2003 is style 556, the Fahrenheit structured mid-profile brushed cotton 6-panel cap with soft buckram and a fabric back strap and brass buckle.
    • Stamps are slammed on the title page, label pockets gummed to the rear pastedown, dust wrappers discarded, covers vulcanised in plastic - or, in those days, a toffee-brown buckram tough enough to withstand acid.

Phrases

  • men in buckram

    • archaic Non-existent people.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • These three swelled, like the men in buckram, and were soon a dozen.
      • A severe-looking person, who wears a Spanish cloak alluded, with a certain lifting of the brow, drawing down of the corners of the mouth, and somewhat rasping voce di petto, to Falstaff's nine men in buckram.
      • When Hal and Poins play the robbery joke on Falstaff and lead him to falsely admit that instead of behaving in a cowardly fashion when robbed, he fought off eleven men in buckram suits in vain.
      • Further, in the older play there is a revel in ‘the old tavern at Eastcheap’ and it is at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap, that Falstaff tells his tale of the men in buckram.
      • The men in buckram multiplied and remultiplied themselves as he spoke; his face was ashen white and he could scarcely control himself.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a kind of fine linen or cotton cloth): from Old French boquerant, perhaps from Bukhara in central Asia.

 
 

Definition of buckram in US English:

buckram

nounˈbəkrəmˈbəkrəm
  • Coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with gum or paste, and used as interfacing and in bookbinding.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stamps are slammed on the title page, label pockets gummed to the rear pastedown, dust wrappers discarded, covers vulcanised in plastic - or, in those days, a toffee-brown buckram tough enough to withstand acid.
    • The device itself was simple enough, consisting of a buckram rim about eighteen inches in diameter, wrapped with 3,411 feet of cotton-covered copper wire, all in turn covered with tape, felt, and an imitation leather sleeve.
    • They just don't make buckram like they used to.
    • The Moroccan-leather-bound edition, limited to 50 numbered copies, is encased in a silver buckram drop-back solander box (£750 inclusive of delivery).
    • New for 2003 is style 556, the Fahrenheit structured mid-profile brushed cotton 6-panel cap with soft buckram and a fabric back strap and brass buckle.

Phrases

  • men in buckram

    • archaic Non-existent people.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Further, in the older play there is a revel in ‘the old tavern at Eastcheap’ and it is at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap, that Falstaff tells his tale of the men in buckram.
      • When Hal and Poins play the robbery joke on Falstaff and lead him to falsely admit that instead of behaving in a cowardly fashion when robbed, he fought off eleven men in buckram suits in vain.
      • The men in buckram multiplied and remultiplied themselves as he spoke; his face was ashen white and he could scarcely control himself.
      • These three swelled, like the men in buckram, and were soon a dozen.
      • A severe-looking person, who wears a Spanish cloak alluded, with a certain lifting of the brow, drawing down of the corners of the mouth, and somewhat rasping voce di petto, to Falstaff's nine men in buckram.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a kind of fine linen or cotton cloth): from Old French boquerant, perhaps from Bukhara in central Asia.

 
 
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