buckram

They value efficiency and aesthetics above all other considerations, and they end up a graveyard of lost opportunities: How will the jacket or the obi interact with the buckram?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023

Mrs. Beane made her hats the old-fashioned way, wetting buckram — a stiff cotton — into molds decorated with all manner of fabrics.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

Albums come with silk, linen, leather or buckram covers, and endless embossing options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2017

It was made of buckram and silver fabric and sequins, but it was stiff and looked like the chrysalis of an insect which had vacated it.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013

The frilled skirt was underpinned with buckram to make it flare.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

I'm a "no-party woman," as all the world knows, just as the buckramed bag-o'-bones at the Abbey foreninst us is a "no-popery woman."

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

He was simply a man from whose reproof one shrank; in manner the least buckramed of mankind, he had, in serious moments, an extreme dignity of goodness.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Marie Antoinette was not averse to a certain licence, which should banish for the time being the buckramed etiquette that she so loathed.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield

Mr. Thomas Warton observed, "they may have been written by Walpole, and buckramed by Mason."

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Samuel Felton

It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.

From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne