buckram

• The corset came away from her skin with a sucking sound ;it was lined in buckram, and they usually replaced the lining every week or so, or the thing went higher than roadkill in August ;and she took a deep grateful breath. —  The Warslayer
• It has a 6-panel seamed front panel with full buckram, 6 embroidered eyelets, pro stitch on crown, and 8 rows of stitching on visor and a matching color undervisor. —  Mises Dailies
• Linen cloth observed through a microscope which magnifies the threads to a coarseness of about forty to the inch gives us the exact appearance of the buckram, which is a heavy, strong cloth well adapted to large books, and which furnishes the most durable binding of all the book cloths. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
• And on his feet were hose of fine white buckram, and buskins of black leather were over his hose, whereon were golden clasps. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Th' chap 'at sell'd it me, said it had been made for th' Princess o' Wales, but it wor soa mich brass wol th' Prince couldn't affoord to pay for't, so he let me have it cheap; an' it's just like buckram--it'll stand ov an end." —  Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings

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