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

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 Thomas Carlyle

On the contrary, to find himself arraigned and put on his defense by this tall, slim woman, erect and smartly buckramed in logic and whalebone, was preposterous!

From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte

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 Mary Hallock Foote

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