buckram

One of the students carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau, what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of-ribbed stockings; the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with buttons.

From the sorrow of a Hottentot to that of a woman in large buckram sleeves, with several bracelets on each arm, an architectural bonnet, and delicate ribbon strings, what a long series of gradations!

No sooner had they reached the mules, than the Jew, with hasty and trembling hands, secured behind the saddle a small bag of blue buckram, which he took from under his cloak, containing, as be muttered, ``a change of raiment only a change of raiment.'' Then getting upon the animal with more alacrity and haste than could have been anticipated from his years, he lost no time in so disposing of the skirts of his gabardine as to conceal completely from observation the burden which he had thus deposited en croupe.

They tended their flocks severely in buckram and powder and put their sticking-plaster patches on to terrify commoners as the chiefs of some other tribes put on their war-paint.

'As the guard spoke, there all at once appeared, right in front of my uncle, a young gentleman in a powdered wig, and a sky- blue coat trimmed with silver, made very full and broad in the skirts, which were lined with buckram. Tiggin and Welps were in the printed calico and waistcoat piece line, gentlemen, so my uncle knew all the materials at once.

"He felt his lips go stiff like buckram, and instead of a reassuring smile only achieved an uncertain grimace.

It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.

The Hunters' hats are structured with chicken wire and children's star hats are stiffened with recycled cardboard instead of buckram. These differences work well for The Little Prince, however.

Unfortunately, two of the University of Pennsylvania's three copies have been rebound in rather unattractive buckram bindings, and the other is in a new half leather binding.

The massive volumes held in London's Wellcome Collection are bound in dyed green goatskin and buckram, with gilt lettering on the spine.

Its first product for this market was Hovotex nonwoven buckram, a washable and dry-cleanable stiffener used to hold the pleats in pinch-pleat draperies.

Working longer hours than the usual nine-to-five, her day starting at 9 am but extended up to 7 pm a little more than two-thirds of the minimum national wage, Rubina Ahmed*, a mother of three and the sole breadwinner for her family, works at a garments factory where she stitches buckram [hard fabric] in shirt collars and cuffs.