[buck.ram] n [ME bukeram, fr. OF boquerant, fr. OProv bocaran, prob. fr. Bokhara, city of central Asia] (15c) 1: a stiff-finished heavily sized fabric of cotton or linen used for interlinings in garments, for stiffening in millinery, and in bookbinding
2. archaic: stiffness, rigidity
[2]buckram adj (ca. 1589): suggesting buckram esp. in stiffness [3]buckram vt (1783) 1: to give strength or stiffness to (as with buckram)
2. archaic: to make pretentious