lockram

American  

[lok-ruhm] / ˈlɒk rəm /

noun

Obsolete.

1. a rough-textured linen cloth.

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Etymology

Origin of lockram

1250–1300; Middle English lokeram, lokerham, after Locronan, village in Brittany where the cloth was made; perhaps conformed to buckram

Example Sentences

Lockram, lok′ram, n. a kind of coarse linen—from Locrenan, in Brittany, where made.

From Project Gutenberg

The list of clothing might include a coat of frieze, a pair of leather breeches, a black hat, or cap of fur, a pair of "wooden heel shoes," and underclothes of dowlas and lockram.

From Project Gutenberg

Linsey, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; kersey, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; lockram was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and penniston, a coarse woolen frieze.

From Project Gutenberg

The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram—all heavy and comparatively coarse materials—or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace.

From Project Gutenberg

Bales of red cotton, blue linen, flowered Kidderminster, scarlet serge, gold and silver drugget, all sorts of woven stuffs from lockram to brocade, made bright the shelves.

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