[ 'bʌkrəm ]
■ noun coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with paste, used as interfacing and in bookbinding.
Phrases
men in ~ archaic non-existent people. [with allusion to Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV II. iv. 210–50.]
Origin
ME: from OFr. boquerant , perh. from Bukhoro , a city in Uzbekistan.