buckram
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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
Even Mr. Curran's unmartial figure was buckramed in gold and scarlet, for was not he too an officer of the Lawyer's corps, which forbade its members to wear mufti?
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas; and yet verily alive in the inside of that!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Felton, Samuel
