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Buckram vs Buckras - What's the difference?

buckram | buckras |

As nouns the difference between buckram and buckras

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 buckras is plural of buckra.

As a verb buckram

is to stiffen with or as if with buckram.

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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    buckras

    English

    Noun

    (head)