| 单词 | buckram |
| 释义 | buckram (once / 10944 pages) nvadj WORD FAMILY buckram: buckramed, buckrammed, buckrams USAGE EXAMPLESThe frilled skirt was underpinned with buckram to make it flare. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things(1997) Why, what unfashion’d stuff you tell us, Of buckram dames, and tiptoe fellows! Moore, Edward Caldwell, Moores Fables for the Female Sex(2012) "In this wise," saith she, "that he sets the velvet before, though the back be but of buckram." Rameur, E., The Catholic World; Volume I, Issue...(2012) 1n a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing Hyper cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers 2v stiffen with or as with buckram buckram the skirt Hyper stiffen make stiff or stiffer 3adj rigidly formal his prose has a buckram quality Syn starchy, stiff formal being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) |
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