#182 buckram

buckram- a stiffened cotton or linen cloth, stiffened with buckram like bookbinding

- C14 from Old French boquerant, ultimately from bukhara- once an important source of textiles

Leading it were two hideous demons, also clad in buckram, with countenances so frightful that Sancho, having once seen them, shut his eyes so as not to see them again. ~ Don Quixote

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