Buckram

Morpheme

Buckram

Type

free base

Denotation

coarse cotton, linen or hemp cloth stiffened with size or glue

Etymology

Old French boquerant, probably from Bukhara

Evidence

buckram, buckramed, buckraming, buckrammed, buckramming, buckrams, unbuckramed

Notes

<m> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes