ppl. a. [f. prec. sb. or vb. + -ED.] Stiffened with buckram; clad in buckram. Also fig.
1793. Roberts, Looker-on (1794), II. 77. Two antiquated beaux, with long buckramed accoutrements and flowing perrukes.
1813. Examiner, 8 Feb., 88/2. It is so stiff, so buckramed, so spiritless in manners.
1850. Hawthorne, Scarlet L., xx. (1879), 250. His buckramed habit of clerical decorum.
1861. Sala, Tw. round Clock, 184. The starched, buckramed … skirts of my female relatives.
1880. J. C. Watt, Gt. Novelists, 89. He [Scott] was attracted to the old ‘wells’ of the language, not so much by the fire of the masters, as by gorgeous equipage, pretty women, steeled and buckramed knights, and the fabulous exploits of these fine creatures.
