[f. prec.] trans. To pad or stiffen with buckram; to give to anything a starched pomposity or a false appearance of strength. Also with out, up. Chiefly fig.
1783. Cowper, Task, VI. 652. His most holy book … was never used before To buckram out the memory of a man.
1784. Warton, in Boswell, Johnson (1831), V. 211. It may have been written by Walpole, and buckram’d by Mason.
1792. Roberts, Looker-on (1794), I. 53. You pinched, buckramed, and pomatumed me up to such a degree.
1855. De Quincey, in H. Page, Life & Writ., II. xviii. 111. But afterwards—he buckramed or crinolined his graceful sketch with an elaborate machinery of gnomes and sylphs.
