Words at Play : Seen & Heard: Good Quotes From Great Books
Definition:
: a stiff fabric used in garments, hats, and bookbindings
Seen & Heard:
"In Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, in a passage about pigs: 'One of the libraries served, for a time, as a wallow, the floor dropped three feet and replaced with mud up to the thresholds for giant Gloucestershire Old Spots to frolic, oink, and cool their summers in, to stare at the shelves of buckram books and wonder if they'd be good eating.' — Gv Knapp
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