(a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing)
(stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt")
(rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality")
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