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Buckram vs Buckra - What's the difference?

buckram | buckra |

As nouns the difference between buckram and buckra

is that buckram is a coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise while buckra is a poor white person.

As a verb buckram

is to stiffen with or as if with buckram.

As an adjective buckra is

white.

buckram

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , bougueran, probably ultimately from .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
  • *1882: Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 557.

    • Verb

  • To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

    • Etymology 2

    Perhaps from earlier buckrams, from .

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A plant, Allium ursinum , also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

    • See also

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    buckra

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, AAVE, derogatory) A poor white person.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (AAVE, archaic) white
    • a buckra yam